What Would You Do if Scientology Ruled the World?

Suppose you're thawed from suspended animation 1,500 years into the future. The first big difference you notice is that all of western culture including art, music, holidays, etc. are based on the life and writings of L. Ron Hubbard. Nearly everyone you meet is a Scientologist.

This is regarded as normal. Everyone was raised to believe in Scientology, and because they see it reflected in society all around them, it feels authoritative and credible. L. Ron's life has been aggrandized in a holy book and everyone gathers at their local church of Scientology for weekly auditing.

This seems asinine to you, because when you lived, Hubbard was one of countless similar cranks and cult leaders. Marshall Applewhite, Gene Ray, Michael Travesser, Jim Jones, any one of them could have inspired a following that eventually refocused all human thought and culture around their teachings, it just happened to be L. Ron Hubbard for whatever reason.

Nobody recognizes that it began as one of many cults and are offended by the observation. The only surviving recordings of what L. Ron was like, as a person, were written by Scientologists. Consequently he is depicted as a visionary, a war hero, a philanthropist and the greatest person ever to live.

You know otherwise, but nobody will listen. Anything you say which even hints that you feel this way is seen as simply calculated to hurt people, and you're shunned accordingly. This makes it difficult to get or keep jobs, while Scientologists gain opportunities by networking that are unavailable to you.

Those who don't react to your unbelief with reflexive hostility conclude you were simply miseducated in the wrong sect of Scientology, or haven't been exposed to enough Scientological materials. They direct your attention to the last 15 centuries worth of sophisticated apologetics written by the greatest Scientologist theologians.

Their reasoning is that if such intelligent men devoted their lives to defending these beliefs, and so much complex literature has been written about them, there must be something to it and you can't say there isn't until you've read everything Scientologist theologians have ever written.

How do you handle this? Do you spend your life trying to find some way to undo what has happened, or go with the flow, content to allow humanity to remain deceived forever?