Send us a text The gleaming buildings and polished promises are hard to ignore. Behind the glass, though, we found a machinery of control that starts with a smile and ends with silence: love bombing, “free” personality tests, and the gleam of celebrity proximity that pulls you into auditing, sec checks, and an endless ladder of courses. We break down how the e‑meter—legally labeled a nonmedical device—becomes a stage prop for suggestibility, how “ethics” turns into surveillance, and why “Clea...