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“Splashing the Volcano”: ‘Dianetics’ in the Age of Reaganomics

By K.E. Roberts / September 29, 2026 From the cover of Dianetics, 2007 edition Anyone who was watching TV in the late 1980s remembers the commercial: probing personal questions appear in white text on a black screen as a Tangerine Dream-esque synth riff pulsates in the background. ”How can you increase your mind’s potential?”; “Why is it so hard to just ‘be yourself’”; “Do you have to live with pain?” With each question, a page number appears in…
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We Are the Mutants broke the news on Tuesday, September 29, 2026.
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