"Big Brother" is watchingIn George Orwell's seminal classic "1984" "Big Brother," the omnipresent totalitarian society that controls his fictional world, seeks to wipe out any history it doesn't like.
It appears that Scientology is now vying to become "Big Brother" of the World Wide Web.
Lawyers representing the organization that Time Magazine once called "The Cult of Greed," have successfully persuaded an Internet historical archive to purge its files of material Scientology deems inappropriate, through its interpretation of the controversial US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, reports England's Times on Line.
According to noted experts, destructive totalistic cults seek to control information.
Robert Jay Lifton, author of "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism" wrote, "The totalist environment seeks to establish domain over all that [it] sees and hears, reads or writes, experiences, and expresses…It creates an atmosphere uncomfortably reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984."
Lifton has often been cited to explain the mindset of destructive cult members and the process cults often use to produce that mindset.
Now Scientology seems to be demonstrating not only its apparent propensity to foster parallels with Orwellian themes, but also revealing aspects of its seemingly totalistic tendencies as well.
Has the "cult" created by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard cast itself as the Internet's "Thought Police"?
[Posted by Rick Ross at 10:52 AM][Link]
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