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Originally Posted by Blaster86
Roddenberry had great ideals and hopes for humanity that he himself was never going to live up to.
I think comparing him to Hubbard isn't fair. I think worshiping him as a peak humanitarian that we should aspire to be like would also be crazy. I think aspiring for the future he saw for humanity is fine. Except the future space army's admiralty. Don't aspire to be that.
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They way he was always out to make a buck and transitioned from TV writer into pseudo religious humanist through the 70s and the 80s though isn't totally dissimilar of a pattern. Sure, I'm making somewhat hyperbolic statement for effect, but it's not as out there as it seems on first glance imo.
I do also believe that philosophically the Gene that created Star Trek, and the Gene that lived off Star Trek and speaking engagements etc after Star Trek aren't really the same person ideologically. Which is fine, I'm not the same person I was 15 years ago either. I just think common knowledge of Gene has sort of become a part of his own self mythologizing than reality.