An overt is a harmful act.
And when we commit acts that harm others, we tend to "natter" about those others.
(Natter = complain, criticize, find fault with)
This indoctrination teaches that the only time we natter about others is when:
- we've done something harmful to that person, or
- we've done something similar ourselves that we haven't taken responsibility for.
Any disagreement you have with LRH, Scientology, other Scientologists, or staff members is due entirely to your own prior misbehaviour - even if it's true, even if it's justified, even if it's reasonable.
As soon as you even think about complaining, this mechanism kicks in and you think, "Oh, no! What's wrong with me?!"
And there is no mechanism for dealing with an actual grievance either because it was ultimately your own fault. Someone assaulted you? Stole your wallet? Slept with your spouse? So what did you do before that to cause that (or, as they say in Scientology, to pull that in)?
CAVEAT: The exception is any transgressions against the C of S or any of its executives by non-Scientologists. Those are bad, suppressive, and crimes of the highest order because only Scientology is good - and it is always good!
This is the ultimate brainwashing, done by oneself. No need for drugs, pain, electroshocks and CIA MK Ultra techniques. You yield gradually and let go your critical
ReplyDeletethinking and your independence and become programmed until you reach the state of perfect Rondroid. By then you have travelled across the bridge to total slavery and you are not even the shadow of your self. You believe that you know, not who you are, but who you are not (OT VIII).