Going Clear, Part 20 – Wright Straw Man Propaganda Technique (Oak Knoll)

Going Clear, Part 20 – Wright Straw Man Propaganda Technique (Oak Knoll)

Wright sets up this straw man where he, or there’s a couple of straw men. They’re related. The first straw man is that Wright goes into this thing about how Hubbard and Scientology is all predicated on the representation that Hubbard cured himself from crippled and blindness and that he cured himself and this all occurred at the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, okay. First of all, you know I went through that in spades with him demonstrating that that is a straw man, it’s a false premise, it’s not that representation doesn’t really exist, number one, and number two, what actually happened at Oak Knoll didn’t involve L. Ron Hubbard and it’s all covered. I gave him all the lectures. If you look, L. Ron Hubbard didn’t say he went and cured himself at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital. He said he discovered the fundamental techniques of Dianetics by engaging in two-way communication therapy of sorts with people who were recovering from illnesses there. Okay. And he talks about it at length in detail and you can see the logic, if you know anything about Dianetics and Scientology. Which I gave him all the material on and took the days to go through and explain it to him and give him the primer so he could understand it, it makes perfect and logical sense.

And the proof of the pudding is, is that to this day Wright still defends himself—you know, it’s not a defense really because in this bankrupt age of intellectual corruption people embrace these reductio ad absurdum simplicity, simple sort of propaganda statements about issues and Scientology’s no exception and so Wright’s embraced, but it’s based on a straw man.