Positive feedback for being rational is naturally delayed indefinitely (e.g. the dude taking years to realize what was going on around him, get out, get his shi

Positive feedback for being rational is naturally delayed indefinitely (e.g. the dude taking years to realize what was going on around him, get out, get his shit together, finally get his story published as a short piece), while negative feedback for disagreeing with established consensus is made immediate and severe (e.g. Hubbard and his flunkies yelling at people). Real achievement takes time to bear fruit, while a sufficiently advanced manipulator can near instantly create emotional feedback loops based in illusion. It's something that happens all over the place all the time - Scientology is an interesting aberration purely because its scaled.