Hubbard on Egyptians (and French)

In Ability magazine, issue 56, October 1957, L. Ron Hubbard offers his view of modern Egyptians (and French) — deteriorated from the pinnacle of their proud heritage — as an example of the problems that Scientology can repair.

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Let us face the reality of this thing. The world confronts several crises. Man's inhumanity to Man is gaining monuments daily. The time to bring a chaos under control is before it is well begun. We're slightly late as it is. Brutally, there is no other organization on Earth that can slow these down. Factually there is no other know-how on Earth that can plumb the problems of Man. So if we don't want all of us to be sitting amongst the charred embers, we had better get busy.

This is no alarmist statement you know. We are the people who can confront it. Past civilizations have vanished, you see. The Chaldean, Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Hindi, Greek, Roman, European — they did vanish. Those little beaten down peasants you see in France were once the proud Romans. Those small brown men who sell their sisters on the streets of Cairo were once the mighty Egyptians. And it was when those societies looked richest that they had already started down. Like this one.

They all failed because they had no know-how about Man. They all dived under from ignorance. Wisdom, real wisdom, could have salvaged any one of them. Wisdom can salvage this one. Wisdom held by the many, not one wise man.

Scientology can smooth the way. It can make intelligent leaders, workable policies. But Scientology hasn't a chance unless we get groups going. You and these people can do this.

If you want men to be slaves, do nothing. Just sit.

If you want this civilization to become charred embers, do nothing. Just sit.

An empty belly and a dead family aren't funny. Why wait until they're a fact to do something.

You say, well what can I do. I'm just a little fellow. I'm just one of billions. That's a lie. You have to hand the most powerful weapon yet forged on Earth: Scientology. You can talk. You can organize. The unions broke the back of savage management. All men in one union against ignorance can break the back of savage "fate."

In addition to being "little beaten down peasants", the French also have degraded to the point that their education system is "deadly". In a lecture entitled "Study Gradients and Nomenclature" (from The Study Tapes, given on 6 August 1964, Hubbard says this about the French:

It's no wonder the French over there—of course in a harder time, during Napoleonic times we could have said, "Who cares how many Frenchmen get killed?" do you see—but today we shouldn't have that calloused attitude and we ought to do something about the French educational system because they drive more students to suicide than you could easily count. They're specialists, specialists at making students commit suicide. The American university leads in as a close second. They just disgrace the fellow and send him down to skid row, if he errs. If they've made the mistake of too fast a gradient, then they condemn the fellow. Crazy! You get how severe this is.