[Sharing Lights]

So consistent is this principle that when one
finds a sick individual, could one search deeply enough,
he would discover a misaligned loyalty and an interrupted obedience to that
person’s group unit.
There are those who foolishly have embarked upon some spiritual
Alice-in-Wonderland voyage into what they call the "subconscious"
or the "unconscious" mind, and who under the guise of "psychotherapy"
would seek to make well the disaffection of body
organs, but it is to be noted that their results are singularly lacking in
success. There is no strength in such an approach. When hypnotism
was first invented in Russia, it was observed that all that was necessary
was to command the unresisting individual to be well in order,
many times, to accomplish that fact. The limitation of hypnotism
was that many subjects were not susceptible to its uses, and thus
hypnotism has had to be improved upon in order to increase the suggestibility
of individuals who would not otherwise be reached. Thus,
any nation can experience growing well again, as a whole organism,
only by placing sufficient force in play against a disaffected group.
Just as in hypnotism any organ can be commanded into greater loyalty
and obedience, so can any political group be commanded into
greater loyalty and obedience should sufficient force be employed.
However, force often brings about destruction and it is occasionally
not feasible to use broad mass force to accomplish the ends in view.
Thus, it is necessary to align the individual against his desire not to
conform.
Just as it is a recognized truth that Man must conform to his environment,
so it is a recognized truth, and will become more so as the
years proceed, that even the body of Man can be commanded into
health.
The constitution of Man renders itself peculiarly adapted to realignment
of loyalties. Where these loyalties are indigestible to the
constitution of the individual itself, such as loyalties to the ‘petit
bourgeoisie’, the Capitalist, to anti-Russia ideas, we find the individual
body peculiarly susceptible to sickness, and thus we can clearly
understand the epidemics, illnesses, mass-neuroses, tumults, and
confusions of the United States and other capitalist countries. Here
we find the worker improperly and incorrectly loyal, and thus we
find the worker ill. To save him and establish him correctly and
properly upon his goal toward a greater State, it is an overpowering
necessity to make it possible for him to grant his loyalties in a correct
direction. In that his loyalties are swerved and his
obedience craven-ly demanded by persons antipathetic to his general good, and in
those persons are few, even in a Capitalist nation, the goal and direction
of Psychopolitics is clearly understood. To benefit the worker
such a plight, it is necessary to eradicate, by general propaganda,
other means, and by his own co-operation, the self-willedness of perverted
leaders. It is necessary, as well, to indoctrinate the educated
strata into the tenets and principles of cooperation with the environment,
and thus to insure to the worker less warped leadership,
craven doctrine, and more cooperation with the ideas and ideals
the Communist State.
The technologies of Psychopolitics are directed to this end.


to be continued to Chapter III in the evening