Riley Keough to outdo Elisabeth Moss for most hypocritical Scientologist?

Karen#1

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Yesterday, Deadline announced that Riley Keough will be joining Dakota Johnson to star in a limited television series based on an upcoming memoir of a woman who escaped the “Children of God” cult.

Johnson will play the Children of God escapee who will team up with her friend, played by Keough, to “investigate and document contemporary cults existing in America today.”

Oh, where do we start.

For the last few years you’ve no doubt seen media outlets wonder how Elisabeth Moss, who grew up in Scientology, could play Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale with a straight face. Having grown up in a totalitarian organization known for forcing young women into abortions and exerting extreme control over its members with psychological indoctrination, Moss’s Emmy-winning turn in the Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about extreme patriarchy must have required some serious cognitive dissonance on Moss’s part.
 

HelluvaHoax!

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Yesterday, Deadline announced that Riley Keough will be joining Dakota Johnson to star in a limited television series based on an upcoming memoir of a woman who escaped the “Children of God” cult.

Johnson will play the Children of God escapee who will team up with her friend, played by Keough, to “investigate and document contemporary cults existing in America today.”

Oh, where do we start.

For the last few years you’ve no doubt seen media outlets wonder how Elisabeth Moss, who grew up in Scientology, could play Offred in The Handmaid’s Tale with a straight face. Having grown up in a totalitarian organization known for forcing young women into abortions and exerting extreme control over its members with psychological indoctrination, Moss’s Emmy-winning turn in the Hulu series based on Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel about extreme patriarchy must have required some serious cognitive dissonance on Moss’s part.
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In my opinion and experience, I think it is by no coincidence whatsoever that actors/actresses who are in a fanatical cult are attracted to seeking and selecting a movie project in which the narrative thread is about the heroic struggle to triumph over fanatical cults.

An analogy (perhaps outdated) would be older PC computers (maybe it still exists but I use Macs) whose "mind" (system) became so bogged down trying to organize data--that one had to regularly "DE-FRAG" it, a function that could take quite a long while. The computer could still function but the DE-FRAG would be running in the background. This is how cognitive dissonance with a cult celebrity would be functioning. To wit, on the surface they look and sound kinda "normal" but somewhere inside their mind there is a DE-FRAG running slowly in the background. It's trying to re-organize the scattered, conflicting and contradictory "data points" that comprise their own personal cognitive dissonance.

In a sense, it could be viewed as a positive sign--wherein their mind has not fully given up and surrendered and is still trying to make sense and solve their overwhelm and entrapment in a cult.

I'm avoiding for the moment relaying a personal experience along these lines, but maybe I'll post it in a new thread dedicated to "INSTINCTIVE WAYS THAT PEOPLE TRY TO RESOLVE THEIR OWN COGNITIVE DISSONANCE AND/OR BLOW FROM A CULT", lol.

Let's now go directly to a perfectly famous and obvious showcase for the above: TOM CRUISE
Has he ever starred in a movie that attempted to "balance" and "resolve" his own unhinged overwhelm by the Orwellian cult of Scientology? Sure he did. Examples of Tom as hero in a Dystopian cult-controlled world abound. Here are just a couple.

THE MINORITY REPORT: (synopsis). "In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent."

Jeez, that one was better than I thought---it was so Scientological it even had PC's in it! Pre-Cogs. LOL!

VALKYRIE: Cruise sought out the starring role in this one much like a moth seeks the flame. Or perhaps like Linda Moth sought the starring role in The Handmaid's Tale. In Valkyrie, Cruise plays the role of a dedicated cult member who "cognites" that he's in a suppressive cult (Nazis) and thereby decides to blow---but not before "delivering an effective blow the the enemies of the group he has been pretending to be part of", by Fair Gaming the cult's SP leader Adolph Hitler.

Perhaps Scientology celebs are finding these types of implanted-thetan-vs-tyrannical-cult roles because they are a PC having a PC (pre-cog) that they might one day realize it's a hoax and blow.


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