Karen#1
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What Changed After I Left?
I recently had the pleasure to meet and have a long discussion with Mitch Brisker for the first time while I was in Los Angeles.
Our paths had crossed numerous times at Gold and Int Base, but we never really knew each other. He, poor guy, had to deal with Jenny Linson (my ex, one of Dave’s executioners) often enough, though. Like me, and like a small number of others, Mitch worked closely with David Miscavige. He understands him. He understands how he thinks, how he reacts, and what actually motivates him.
What was remarkable was that Mitch was still closely involved for more than a decade after I had already left.
That was exactly what I was looking for. Recent, firsthand insight.
I had so many questions. What did things actually look like now? What had changed? What had not?
What happened to Marc Yager? To Guillaume Lesevre? To Mark Ingber? To Jenny DeVocht Linson?
What was going on at Gold Base? Were org boards and stats ever issued? Did “the Hole” still exist the way it did when I left? Did Dave ever move in and use Building 50?
Had there been any real strategic shift at all?
Did David Miscavige change anything as a result of all the negative publicity and outcry?
After our conversation, I walked away with confirmation of something I had suspected for a long time but had never been able to verify.
Nothing had changed.
Not the direction.
Not the strategy.
Not the mindset.
David Miscavige has been completely true to his word.
A Man With One Playbook
Miscavige is like a rat in a maze.
He knows one thing, and he has one, maybe two, tools he is adept at using: legalese and propaganda. Both are backed by effectively unlimited sums of money.
He goes around and around, doing the same things over and over. It is all he knows. The difference now is that he is more afraid than ever. More suspicious. More reclusive. Less trusting. Less visible.
He still trusts no one.
He still allows no independence.
He still tolerates no deviation.
David Miscavige cannot operate any other way. He never has. He is incapable of it because he has backed himself against the wall. Or perhaps he is simply not capable of doing anything else.
And he has not changed a single thing behind the walls he built. He may have put up some new walls, but behind them it is the same old story.
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I recently had the pleasure to meet and have a long discussion with Mitch Brisker for the first time while I was in Los Angeles.
Our paths had crossed numerous times at Gold and Int Base, but we never really knew each other. He, poor guy, had to deal with Jenny Linson (my ex, one of Dave’s executioners) often enough, though. Like me, and like a small number of others, Mitch worked closely with David Miscavige. He understands him. He understands how he thinks, how he reacts, and what actually motivates him.
What was remarkable was that Mitch was still closely involved for more than a decade after I had already left.
That was exactly what I was looking for. Recent, firsthand insight.
I had so many questions. What did things actually look like now? What had changed? What had not?
What happened to Marc Yager? To Guillaume Lesevre? To Mark Ingber? To Jenny DeVocht Linson?
What was going on at Gold Base? Were org boards and stats ever issued? Did “the Hole” still exist the way it did when I left? Did Dave ever move in and use Building 50?
Had there been any real strategic shift at all?
Did David Miscavige change anything as a result of all the negative publicity and outcry?
After our conversation, I walked away with confirmation of something I had suspected for a long time but had never been able to verify.
Nothing had changed.
Not the direction.
Not the strategy.
Not the mindset.
David Miscavige has been completely true to his word.
A Man With One Playbook
Miscavige is like a rat in a maze.
He knows one thing, and he has one, maybe two, tools he is adept at using: legalese and propaganda. Both are backed by effectively unlimited sums of money.
He goes around and around, doing the same things over and over. It is all he knows. The difference now is that he is more afraid than ever. More suspicious. More reclusive. Less trusting. Less visible.
He still trusts no one.
He still allows no independence.
He still tolerates no deviation.
David Miscavige cannot operate any other way. He never has. He is incapable of it because he has backed himself against the wall. Or perhaps he is simply not capable of doing anything else.
And he has not changed a single thing behind the walls he built. He may have put up some new walls, but behind them it is the same old story.
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