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In Reply to: Whose fault in regards to accountability? posted by Post R on September 03, 2002 at 21:52:43:
And the thing about leaders not being accountable to the lower-downs, but only the higher-ups: that didn't mean that they necessarily "got it" when they blew it and hurt people. Only if it happened to be in line with a recent Revolution. For e.g. everyone was encouraged to report on their leaders during the RNR cause Berg was trying to shake apart the leadership structure to make room for new bottles who would believe and practice FFing. So every leader got shit the day the RNR broke out.
But for the most part, the was a one time thing while Mao (er...I mean Mo) let loose the Red Guard on the system he himself had created.
What truly amazed me in later years was how bad, abusive leadership was recycled, briefly retrained, just sufficiently-enough "humbled" then turned loose on the flock again as leaders. The way Berg and Maria saw it, they'd invested so much head-fucking "training" on these guys that they just had to use them. Besides, these leaders did have leadership talent so-called, so let's just squash them a bit, squeeze them, publicly humiliate them, turn them into "yes sir" yes men and then they'll REALLY be good leaders.
Well then.... why the fuck were all these retrained good leaders having nervous breakdowns one after another? From stories I've heard, many leaders walked around, so cracked from the strain that they were babbling idiots. It was downright scary to look at them. Nervous breakdowns. And this was the state of leadership. Ha. What about the flock?
At that same time Peter Amsterdam took a poll and found out that 3/4 of Family members had had suicidal thoughts at some time or another. Then they thought, "Shit! This is working so well why don't we send EVERYBODY to Victor's camps!" Can't you just see Peter and Maria waking up in the morning and looking at one another and saying, "Why didn't we think of this sooner? This is such good stuff let's put everyone through the mind-grinder."
It's like that old Family skit where they're debunking evolution and Prof. Poopfossil grunts and grunts and comes up with a big turd called Evolution, and eats it and says, "This is good shit" and starts giving it to others who say, "You're right! This IS good shit."
Well, just put the word Retraining-Crushing-Breaking in place of the Evolution label on the warm brown turd, and you get a good picture of what was happening to us.
