Ability Magazine, Issue 62, December 1957 - We Begin a Campaign

[auditor]

“Now why is it so important to enter upon Project Clear just now?
“Well, all I can tell you is what my crystal ball says – the one that’s been so right so long.
“The US faces three possible fates. These are as follows:
“1. Atomic war emerging into a mauled Earth, set back to a stone age.
“2. A super technical space opera type government, all the scientists drafted, the citizens in slavery to and utterly drained by a merciless scientific machine (see 1984 and increasing government emphasis on ‘science’ Hitler style).
“3. A society which retains its technical advances but where Man runs the machines.
“The first would demand of you abilities of survival which a non-Clear (aberree) doesn’t have.
“The second would demand of you escape and control abilities beyond the scientific economic rat-race that always results from aberrees planning everyone’s life.
“The third is a long shot that depends only upon us. Nobody else has any technical or social answer vaguely comparable to a Scientology US. So it’s a faint chance. So what? It’s a chance. If you’re drowning you don’t ask for a stress analysis of the log that drifts your way.
“Now some characters with bovine optimism of ‘it’s all in good hands’ will just drift and hope. That’s optimism gone mad...
“…The only way it can ‘all get better’ is for the US to completely reform its administration of science.
“It won’t. It will run the World War II engram of drafting scientists and getting by on mass economic slavery which we’re already tasting. The US government is too apathetic, too lethargic, too unwieldy to suddenly smarten up. Pcs don’t suddenly recover with no auditing. Well, neither will a government.
“So in all cases, the future demands that we get Clear ourselves and at least try hard to clear a country. If we fail to clear the country, we Scientologists will at least be an intact group. For I don’t think a group of Clears would be eaten up by either atomic war or scientific slavery.
“So here’s what we have to do to carry on.
“Individually we have to get Clear. Collectively we have to stay in communication. Generally we have to clear as much of our environment as we can.” - L. Ron Hubbard
(Ability Magazine, Issue 62, December 1957 “We Begin a Campaign”)