How did "being open-minded" get to be considered good, when so many examples of it's pitfalls surround us?
Roger Gonnet,...is the subject of a special feature in the latest edition of French magazine XXI,....
This time however, his journey from dedicated Scientologist to the movement's most vociferous critic in France is told in the graphic-novel format.
Gonnet's story is the centrepiece of a 34-page dossier dedicated to Scientology in the latest edition of XXI, which appears quarterly.
L'Evadé de la Secte (roughly, He Escaped from the Cult) is built around his experience of the movement: but it also works in the basic story of Dianetics, Scientology and its founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Bringing his story to life in a 30-page strip is Renaud De Heyn, a Belgian comic-book artist and illustrator with several books to his name.
...De Heyn recounts how Gonnet and his wife Françoise got pulled into Scientology by his uncle, who with an American friend ran a successful franchise of the movement.
At the time Gonnet was a business consultant and Françoise a teacher: but this was in 1973, at the tail end of what was still a thriving hippy movement in France, when people were open to all kinds of unconventional ideas.
Tell me something I don't know - TMR's got a "delusional thinking" tag.
At the bottom of the post - look.
At the bottom of the post - look.
I'd love to have someone illustrate my cult story, especially for the French, since part of it takes place there and I find the frogs, generally, so on-the-mark about cults but so "off" when assessing America. And the cult of homeopathy.
We, both, require more study.
Where was I? I don't know - Scientology's on trial in France, and will probably be getting the boot soon, or something. In this, we can learn from The Frog Nation. Nobody needs this shit.
But make no mistake:
From here on out,...
That's about as "open-minded" as we should plan on getting about anything.
FOR REALS,...
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