"Well, the technological fact which kicked all this off is
that you did it. And that's a tough bullet to chew. Nobody on
Earth, anywhere, ever had the power to aberrate you, except
you. When you've managed to gulp that one down, your throat
may feel raw but you will feel much better generally, because
you'll stop going around looking for all the bad things that
are happening to you.
"Now, we've all of us been 'motivator kids'; we've all of
us been motivator hungry. 'Look at what's happened to me!' See?
Arrows, bullet holes, arsenic. And us poor victims, somehow or
other, must struggle along to our doubtlessly degraded destiny
of being victimized.
"Oh, I'm—it's unfortunate that this is so popular. This is
so popular that all I would have to do is write a book saying
'You are a victim,' and go right back up to the top of the
bestseller list of the Times. But the only truth in it
would be this one fact: You are a victim of your own delusion
that you can be a victim."
— L. Ron Hubbard State of Man Congress |