Sunday, April 06, 2008
Mitt's Hubbard and Walt Disney
"...consider Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He was born 10 years after Walt [Disney], also in heartland America. His career likewise took off on the strength of mass-market entertainments (in Hubbard's case, sci-fi). And then midcentury—during that Atomic Age moment when everything somehow seemed possible—he turned his attention to a grand, ego-gratifying social project of dubious utility.
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L. Ron was an idiot. I tried once to read one of his books (I was big on SF at the time), but could not get through it. Just too damn long and boring, and not well written, to boot.
Are you prepared to square off with Tom Cruise in making such statements like that, AI?
L. Ron Hubbard shows us that, along with frustrated, financially inept, younger husbands of savvy Saudi female merchants [and embittered thrice rejected art school aspirants] there are few things as dangerous in this world as a fictionalist of the future whose writing is that of a talentless hack.
MFT: Tom Cruise is half my size -- bring it on!
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