Wonder if Tom made it to the first screening of THE MASTER, with Philip Seymour Hoffman, and I wonder also if John Travolta was his date. Sorry, couldn;t resist that one.
And a second thought: how is it that so much of this cult
BS reaches so many people? How is it that people who are otherwise talented and “intelligent” are vulnerable to these
sci-fi ideologies? How much is this the result of a failure
of education-—did they never hear of any of the actual thinkers who formed the basis for Western Civilization?
I suppose part of the appeal of things like Scientology is that they blithely sweep all “common knowledge” aside, and try to replace it with their various crackpot versions of the human mind, spirituality, and evolution, and that this, more than anything is very attractive to people who want to think of themselves as defiantly “cutting-edge”, proud in their lonely elitism as the Enlightened Ones.
It’s the perfect religion for rich, lost people. They can continue to live however they want and they are assured of being “saved” as long as they can continue to throw money at this “church”.