Arabs

L. Ron Hubbard speaks at length about the problems of Arabs: how they came to be in their present degraded state and how only Scientology can salvage them. These excerpts are from the "Case Analysis — Rock Hunting" lecture of the 20th American Advanced Clinical Course, given on 4 August 1958.

Scientology believes that humans are actually thetans: immortal, noncorporeal beings who mocked up (imagined) the earth and its physical inhabitants, originally as a game. Over time, they have forgotten their true nature and believe themselves to be their mocked up physical bodies.

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Now, to dine totally on death is to keep things mocked up ? Oh, no! But the very idiocy of it keeps a thetan from looking at it and so he says, "Therefore, I will go on being mocked up." His illogic is fantastic, utterly fantastic. He groups himself together in nations and then slaughters other nations and gets himself slaughtered in nations over causes that have no basis in reality at all.

Now, there's nothing between me and the Arab races at all. As a matter of fact, I like Arabs. Nobody's going to do anything for an Arab: not with gifts, with training, with finance, with politics or with armies. Nobody's going to do anything for an Arab, except maybe you and I. He's been going crazy steadily and gradually ever since he lost the early very fertile basins of the Middle East. He's been going crazy ever since he failed to learn wheat farming and brought about the erosion of all of the fertile areas of the Middle East. He wheat farms; he makes little straight paths from the bottom of the gully straight up to the top of the hill and then wonders someday why the hill washes away. You can see where an Arab has been farming because it is now a badlands out in the Middle East, just as thoroughly a badlands as any we have in Oklahoma or you have in Australia or South Africa.

In the middle of Spain you come across these badlands. They are old wheat areas. All the soil is gone and only this — firmer structures of the ground remain in place.

The Arab had several thousand years to learn this and he never learned it. He never learned that he lost all of his wheat land. It's fantastic — fantastic.

He's going to kick out of North Africa, he tells you, everybody and the tourists will still come, and he can finance himself with new cars. You ask him, you say, "Well, how do you suppose that tourists will keep coming down here if the area is in an entire anarchy, and the rule is very poor, and so forth, you'll have no tourists." Oh, new thought, new thought. Then where will you get your new car?" "Oh, new thought." "Where will you get your gasoline?" Oh, new thought. Very fabulous.

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It's quite interesting, quite interesting to look back and find what this particular Middle Eastern race, which is really a potpourri of races who now inhabit these various countries, gave us in terms of advancement and thought. They gave us music, poetry, literature. The Greeks got it from them. Here's something that goes clear back, all the way back. Now, this may not be sound history but it's very sound Scientology. This race has been going for a very, very long time and has been eating death for a very long time and it is death.

It once tried to conquer Europe in its entirety, and it failed. And that was the high tide, the very high tide of those races which in their conglomeracy you can call the Arab races. Fascinating. They have eaten death too long and now they bring death to the things they touch.

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Now, I'm not talking about these people as any propaganda activity. I am simply saying that education, finance and all of these things would not do anything for the Arab today. Nothing short of processing him on the exact Rocks  of his own culture. And those exact Rocks are religious bigotry and magic, demonology, so forth. These things have stayed with him all this time.

Right now, Dull Foster  and Ikenhower  are risking the peace of earth to do something with or about these people. Ah, but force of arms is the oldest story in the world. Education is the oldest story in the world. The Arab is to a point where he won't even follow a decent leader. He's got to have a man of blood, a man of cruelty, exaggeration and bigotry. Then he'll follow him.

I've been very interested in talking to Arabs that the bloodier I talk, the more fanatic I seem, the happier they are with me as a friend.

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In other words, he makes enemies on purpose. And that is the basis of he must have a fight, he must have a problem, he must have this and he must have that. Don't you see? And that he is trying to be pleased with death tells you that he is trying to cure himself of his worst failing, which is mortality. Be pleased with death.

Now the Arab could—practically can't eat anymore. If you offered him a good dinner he wouldn't know what to do with it. He'd rather eat sheeps brains with dirty fingers, or something. He really would. The more nauseous forms of death and the more death they are, the better he likes it.

But you'll find this same germ that now exists in that race — and don't worry about that race, we'll tackle it someday and get it all straightened out — exists right now in this society. People are enjoying food. They're supposed to enjoy food. And most of the time they don't, you see, but they know they're supposed to.

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See? Now he lives on death. He's trying to — like the Arab — the Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest. He's trying to be pleased with these things and he'll only follow the person who is pleased with these things. You got the idea? All you have to do is stand up around Arabs and be pleased with murder or pleased with disease. And you say, "Oh, boy, disease is really something, boy. I see somebody sick; I see a bunch of beggars, (I've done this, by the way) seen a bunch of beggars on the streets, you know, leprosy and so forth. Boy, you know, that's — that's interesting. I like that." And the Arab, boy, they can't give you enough or do enough for you. This is a pathetic thing. See, you just mock it up this way just to see what they react to, and they react to that.

So any time some big chieftain comes in from the desert and says, "M[e] Alakbar, kill everybody, kill yourselves, kill your husbands, wives and children. Murder all the Franks and three cheers, three cheers." Oh boy! Nobody can get rid of this guy, see? He's pleased with it all. So he goes snap. Got that? So the cause-cure mechanism is actually after the fact of ARC. The considerations of ARC are primary. Now, he started picking up things that were pleased with it and then when they weren't pleased with it, that became a new illness, didn't it? See, he brought in a demon that was pleased with it but then if a few demons failed to be pleased with the condition, then he had a new illness on his hands, didn't he, called a demon. Got this? So he couldn't get rid of his illnesses in any other way except by dying and abandoning everything in one fell swoop, which made him anxious about keeping things mocked up. So he began to invent machinery that would keep him mocked up and keep things mocked up. And of all things that machinery became the most valuable thing, but it became involved in the cause-cure mechanism.