If you’re going to craft memetic weapons, you’d better make damn sure you’ve developed a resistance to your own products before you begin peddling them.
Hubbard ended up spending lots of his time around people who had been infected with his viral religious propaganda… and inevitably, he became infected himself.
People with high Int and Cha tend to believe their own propaganda. They’re also the ones who tend to have unrealistically positive beliefs about their own intellectual competence, and little concern about going through the tedious and uncomfortable process of examining their own beliefs and practices.
If you’re going to craft memetic weapons, you’d better make damn sure you’ve developed a resistance to your own products before you begin peddling them.
Hubbard ended up spending lots of his time around people who had been infected with his viral religious propaganda… and inevitably, he became infected himself.
People with high Int and Cha tend to believe their own propaganda. They’re also the ones who tend to have unrealistically positive beliefs about their own intellectual competence, and little concern about going through the tedious and uncomfortable process of examining their own beliefs and practices.