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"I was quite pleased with our results in Savannah, picking up people
there who were carried through on what the South considered an
adequate education for a Negro. By the time he got through a Negro
high school he was about as well educated as a third grader! And they
wondered sometimes why they were a little bit backward. If they had
paid attention to that educational quota they would have seen that
country advance.
But these people were not responding on an educated basis at all. I
would try to explain to them, sometimes without calling it Dianetics,
how the mechanism worked. "Yes, yes," they would reply very politely,
"you're an awful smart man, Mr. Hubbard. Yes, sir. Yes, doctor."
"I'm not a doctor."
"Yes, doctor."
That was the sort of reaction I received. And yet I would ask them to
give me flash answers, and I would take them down the track, breaking
a couple of locks, and getting these blow-offs and smiles, with the
person feeling very cheerful and happy about it.
And I would ask them, "What are you laughing about, why are you so
cheerful?"
"I don't know, doctor. It just seemed funny. Ain't it supposed to be
funny?"
And yet when they got to thinking over it, they were laughing about
their mother's death or something. In other words, the technique was
working on them."
L. Ron Hubbard
Lecture 24 July 1950: DIAGNOSIS DATA Using the Dramatization as a Key