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CAUSE OVER YOUR ENVIRONMENT
BY L. RON HUBBARD
— excerpted from Celebrity Issue
333 © 2001 CCI
Somebody says there's such a thing as a good news story. Have you read a paper
lately? There's no good news stories. "Train wrecked, child raped, murder"
— what's good about these stories? There is no such thing as good
press.
These are fellows who are shoving the environment in your face and saying,
"Look — dangerous. Look — overwhelming. Look — threatening.
Look. Look." Well, they not only report the most threatening bits of news
that couldn't have any possible effect upon their readers' lives, but also sensationalize
it, and make it worse than it is. What more do you want, as a proof of their intention?
Well, of course, this is a chaos merchant. He's
paid to the degree that he can make the environment threatening.
Now, it isn't just and only the politician, the soldier, the militarist, the
fellow making the big rockets and the newspaper reporter and so forth, that's
making the environment threatening. There's a lot of people spend their whole
lives as professional chaos merchants — just worry everybody around them
to death. In fact, the percentage is pretty good. The percentage is probably one
out of four. Pretty good. [...]
So the chaos merchant has lots of troops — a lot of people with vested
interests. What's a blackmailer but somebody who's trying to extort money by telling
somebody that he can make the environment far more dangerous. [...]
The environment is not as dangerous, ever, as it is made to appear. [...]
Now, in a universe which is kept going and made very disturbed continuously
by lies, all the basic and fundamental facts of the universe had been completely
covered up and particularly those related to life and death; these things were
completely masked. And nothing but disturbance and chaos had been dug up around
them for so long that data was gone. [...]
Well, philosophy had come to such a decadence that I think in the West it mainly
was somebody sitting around a cracker barrel uttering witticisms. And I think
the last time anybody really came up with any really civilized philosophy of any
kind or another, they gave him a nice slug of hemlock. It's not been a very popular
subject, but it was only unpopular to this degree: that it disturbed the merchants
of chaos. And these fellows that had trouble with this were only luckless to this
degree: that they didn't reach the truth. They had limited truth. And the road
to truth is something you must follow all the way down. There is not such a thing
as a limited truth. You've got to go all the way when you start talking about
the truth of life. You mustn't hold up and not find out what it is.
[signed]
L. RON HUBBARD, FOUNDER
from the lecture "Scientology Zero,"
part of the How to Confront and Shatter Suppression PTS/SP Course
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