Barile
Well-known member
I rarely watch TV, preferring movies as a more honest approach to story telling, and above that, I try to stay clear of
Apple's "original" series, as my intimate knowledge of the agenda is bloodstained across my 30 year history with them.
As luck would have it, and having run low on interesting movies to watch, I came across the series "Silo".
I watched all of seasons 1 & 2 in a couple of days and began to wonder if this was not a perfect metaphor for
the Sea Org. The only missed opportunity for irony is the camera and audio monitoring so pervasive and intrinsic
to the story. Back before such tech was commonplace, we didn't need electronic monitoring. We had each other.
Without the benefit of empathy, and with a "fixed and dedicated glare", people wrote their confessions of other's
failure to keep Scientology working, which would be handled in varying degrees of recompense up to and including
expulsion, disconnection and loss of any further possibility of freedom. In the Silo series, this is known as "Cleaning",
expulsion to the world outside the silo, where death was almost instantaneous.
The story cuts very deeply into the arteries of "the needs of the many require the sacrifices of the few", a slight modification
of the Spock conundrum of sacrifice. When it becomes necessary to betray one's friends, family and population at large,
for the "greater good" of the all, the system becomes brutally clear and in focus.
In a very real sense, each "org" was and is a silo to those who have made a pact with the founder. Your survival and indeed
the survival of all living things is linked with keeping the silo in order, and quashing rebellion, even in the most insignificant
forms.
The ultimate thought control, is to believe fully in a system where inquiry is forbidden.
Apple's "original" series, as my intimate knowledge of the agenda is bloodstained across my 30 year history with them.
As luck would have it, and having run low on interesting movies to watch, I came across the series "Silo".
I watched all of seasons 1 & 2 in a couple of days and began to wonder if this was not a perfect metaphor for
the Sea Org. The only missed opportunity for irony is the camera and audio monitoring so pervasive and intrinsic
to the story. Back before such tech was commonplace, we didn't need electronic monitoring. We had each other.
Without the benefit of empathy, and with a "fixed and dedicated glare", people wrote their confessions of other's
failure to keep Scientology working, which would be handled in varying degrees of recompense up to and including
expulsion, disconnection and loss of any further possibility of freedom. In the Silo series, this is known as "Cleaning",
expulsion to the world outside the silo, where death was almost instantaneous.
The story cuts very deeply into the arteries of "the needs of the many require the sacrifices of the few", a slight modification
of the Spock conundrum of sacrifice. When it becomes necessary to betray one's friends, family and population at large,
for the "greater good" of the all, the system becomes brutally clear and in focus.
In a very real sense, each "org" was and is a silo to those who have made a pact with the founder. Your survival and indeed
the survival of all living things is linked with keeping the silo in order, and quashing rebellion, even in the most insignificant
forms.
The ultimate thought control, is to believe fully in a system where inquiry is forbidden.
