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Scientology Is A Perfect Society

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There is no such thing as perfect, whether it is doing something in a perfect way, or even just living in a “perfect” ideal society. A perfect ideal society is what is known as a “utopia”, and is defined as, “An imaginary and indefinitely remote place”(Webster). Many people have accepted the fact that this place does not exist, but there are still those few who think that they are apart of one. Scientology is a prime example of something that brings all of those cons into play and some of your favorite celebrities are apart of Scientology, including actors John Travolta and Tom Cruise. Scientology is basically a religion/cult that involves celebrities, and normal people, feeding money into this religion and getting nearly nothing in return, …show more content…

They believe and worship whatever the leaders have to say to them. Winston in the Ministry of truth begins to realize that his job is nothing like it sounds like. This society changes old history, along with altering facts and making change seem insignificant. When the leaders change major historical and economic events like, “At just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally”(Orwell 180), it just does not seem to affect the citizens of Oceania in the slightest. The citizens of Oceania sit back and act as if this piece of information is irrelevant and nothing has changed nor affects their lives at all. This is due to the fact that they are limited in the amount of education and vocabulary that they have readily available to them. The citizens of this terrible society are also under the impression that they cannot even think something bad or else they will be punished for it. Everything is out of the question when it comes to freedoms, “A party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone...He had no freedom of choice in any direction whatever”(Orwell 210). The people of Oceania are under constant surveillance and have no freedoms at all. There is a …show more content…

Leah acted on a show called “The King of Queens” in the late 90’s and early 00’s and is now very famous for her book that she recently wrote titled “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology”. She was inspired to write this book because she was a part of Scientology every since she was a kid for 34 years, and had just left the terrible religion in 2013. When asked in a tv interview, “Is Scientology a cult? Did the church brainwash you?”, Leah Remini explains how Scientology got her when she was very young and is very much like a cult when she says, “So when you're indoctrinated when you're very young, as I was, and all the information that you receive is from Scientology, and you're not allowed to look at other things because you're penalized for doing that, yes, that is the way cults work. They cut you off from information from the outside world and they start to sequester you by saying everybody else is your enemy”(Abramovitch). This reverts back to the dystopian trait that is “Citizens have a fear of the outside world”. This not only tells you that people of dystopian societies are scared of the outside world, but more importantly uneducated about the world they live in. She talks about how you are not permitted to talk to other people about these things. Similarly to 1984, how Winston cannot think about what might have been the truth about the past,

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