Trapped In The Closet came out in 2005 so the internet wasn’t as vast in information yet or as available. Not even most Scientologists knew the truths of their teachings. So how did Matt and Trey get such in-depth info on the subject?
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Sunken cost fallacy doesnt work on the whole population. Yea the system is set up to make sure those are the only people that get to that level, but some still slip thru the cracks
Ask chef the voice actor left because joined the whole scientology shit?
Dude I was a high schooler writing papers about how they’re a danger to society in 05, i don’t think it was a secret
The Xenu story has been floating around forever. It’s not a huge secret. Although Scientology protects it fiercely because it’s their most sacred “truth” and deep down I think even some of them know how absurd it is if they were to make this public. Plus since it’s the highest OT level you can get to currently, if they just released the info you learn at that level now, Scientologists have no reason to pay for it later.
The reason many stay in Scientology after learning the Xenu nonsense is as Leah Remini described - by that time you’ve invested years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars or more for you to get the “truth” of the universe as brainwashed aliens souls in DC-8’s and a galactic warlord. You think “there HAS to be more than this” so you stay in it because you don’t want the shame of believing you wasted all that time and money.
It was what might be called an “Open Secret”.
People knew Scientology was weird and if you looked for it there was information available. It just wasn’t wide spread common knowledge at the time.
Honestly, I remember watching it and being like, yea, this tracks with what I have heard/know…
That being said, I still went diving for info and found it all pretty easily back then.
They literally went so surface level with their criticisms of them. It was all basically public knowledge at that point. Have you seen the movie Bowfinger
A number of people in the entertainment industry either were involved in scientology or knew people who were.
Scientology focused on that group fr a number of reasons.
And by this time enough people left and came forward to get more than enough background.
the scientology papers were all over usenet, the ‘church’ had been suing anyone who hosted them, but they weren’t hard to find, if you knew how to look. But south park distilled the idiocy down to a easily understandable mush, and for that they should be hailed.
I will always love southpark for trapped in the closet, all about mormons, and red hot catholic love, if for no other reason. (and there’s lots of other reasons to love south park)
A bunch of documents were famously leaked and all over the Internet as of the mid 90s.
I read about it on Wikipedia after the episode came out and it didn’t cost me £100,000 to find out the top level secrets.
I feel like all the crazy beliefs of scientology were pinging around pop culture by the early 90s at least.
Before the internet there were still magazines and tracts for and against scientology.
Being in Hollywood they knew the people who were involved with that.
2005 wasn’t the Stone Age, the internet ran quite well and operation clambake originated in 96.
alt.religion.scientology was a thing on usenet newsgroups