Thing
10th April 2006, 04:35 PM
Mike Daisey (http://www.mikedaisey.com), who I've never met or seen, is performing a series of extemporised monologues called "Great Men of Genius" in Seattle, where I've never been. The Tesla and Hubbard ones in particular sound very interesting. His site gives links to reviews in The Stranger, Seattle's alternative paper. Mike's own comment on the Hubbard one includes this:
The performance for me was strange, surreal and alternated between great fun and sheer [rule8]ing terror as I felt the wide, staring eyes of Scientology members radiating their disapproval—at first I thought it was paranoia on my part, but I hit a section where I talk about my issues with psychiatry and I felt their approval, which was much more disturbing than when they were hating me.
The performance for me was strange, surreal and alternated between great fun and sheer [rule8]ing terror as I felt the wide, staring eyes of Scientology members radiating their disapproval—at first I thought it was paranoia on my part, but I hit a section where I talk about my issues with psychiatry and I felt their approval, which was much more disturbing than when they were hating me.