14 DAY TRIAL // The Smiths, Will and Jada Pinkett, refuse to say if they’re Scientologists or not, mostly because the Internet has made the association between a celebrity and the cult an unwanted one. That means that, whenever their 2 kids, Jaden and Willow, do a typically spacey interview, Xenu is brought up in the conversation.
The spirit of Xenu is very strong with Jaden’s new GQ profile. This is, without a doubt, his strangest interview so far.
Changing the world in vague ways
Speaking to GQ, the 17-year-old proves that not all celebrity kids are out of touch with reality: in his and his sister’s case, it seems that reality is a concept so distant that they can even imagine it taking whatever shape they want.
A for-instance is when Jaden compares himself to Galileo, saying that he takes pleasure when people call him crazy because they did the same to Galileo. He’s not saying he’s as revolutionary as he was, but he’s not saying he’s not either, he adds.
He boasts about making his own clothes and building a pyramid in his parents’ backyard. He doesn’t say what purpose it would serve, but he’s very proud of it and even promises he would post photos of it on social media when it’s done, so people know he wasn’t lying.
Jaden is yet to graduate from high school but he’s thinking of college already. He doesn’t want to enlist now (he and Willow are against any form of public schooling), but when he’s 25, he can see himself setting up an office at MIT. He says that as if only wanting to do that would ensure he will.
He also wants to go to schools all over the world, from the US to China, India, Europe, Russia, but not as a regular student: he will just drop by, absorb all information and be gone.
The purpose of this is to become who he is meant to become, which will allow him to change the world. If this sounds too vague for you, that’s because Jaden means it this way.
“Me and Willow are scientists”
Jaden doesn’t detail a plan or course of action, but there is no doubt in his mind that his impact on the universe will be major. In 10 years from now, he plans to disappear “like Banksy” and pop up in random places, doing his work and, yes, changing the world.
Then, there’s this: “Me and Willow are scientists, so everything for us is a scientific test upon humanity. And luckily we’re put in a position where we can affect large groups of human beings at one time. […] You know what I’m saying? So I’m just dedicating my whole life to helping the world.”
In previous interviews, both Jaden and Willow have made similarly strange statements, like how they can control and alter time to their liking, that aliens exist, that they write their own books since they were kids, and that they make their own clothes because they’re not slaves to money. This last part is ironic coming from a kid who has access to funds to build a life-size pyramid in his famous parents’ backyard.