Jamie Mustard

And there's ranks was very Lord of the Flies.

And if you were a higher rank, then you were brutalizing the kids of a lower rank.

And it was just that was what it was.

I think the time that they were living in is a part of it.

Like they were coming out of the 60s, which was all of these assassinations.

Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, RFK, JFK and Edgar Evers.

And then you have the Cuban Missile Crisis and nuclear proliferation.

Vietnam, that time was just the world is going to burn into fire.

And so at the end of the 60s, these kids just dropped out and they joined thousands of these cults all over the world, all over the United States and communes.

And they were just done.

And it was like, we just need drugs and sex because they'd grown up under this pressure.

And then they had these post-World War II parents who weren't the most sympathetic people in the world, right?

The quiet people.

The silent generation.

They just checked out.

And then there was a lot of illegitimate children being born.

And so all of a sudden they're looking for these groups.

They were ripe for the picking.

And they got caught up in these ideas of these groups that they could save the world and turn it all around.

And it wasn't just Scientology.