[Sharing Lights]

Chapter 4


State Goals for the
Individual and the Masses
Just as we would consider an individual to be ill, whose organs,
each one, had a different goal from the rest, so we consider the
individuals and the State to be ill where goals are not rigorously
codified and enforced.
There are those who, in less enlightened times, gave Man to
believe that goals should be personally sought and held, and that,
indeed, Man’s entire impulse toward higher things stemmed from
Freedom. We must remember that the same peoples who embraced
this philosophy also continued in Man the myth of spiritual existence.
All goals proceed from duress. Life is a continuous escape from
pain. Without the threat of punishment there can be no gain.
Without duress and command there can be no alignment of bodily
functions. Without rigorous and forthright control, the State can
achieve no goals.
Goals of the State should be formulated by the State for the obedience
and concurrence of the individuals within that State. A State
without goals so formulated is a sick State. A State without the
power and forthright wish to enforce its goals is a sick State.
When an order is issued by the Communist State, and it is not
obeyed, a sickness will ensue. Where obedience fails, the masses suffer.
State goals depend upon loyalty and obedience for their accomplishment.
When one discovers a State goal to be interrupted, one
discovers inevitably that there has been an interposition
of self-willedness, of greed, of idleness, or of rugged individualism and selfcentered
initiative. The interruption of a State goal will be discovered
to have been the work of a person whose disloyalty and disobedience
is the direct result of his own misalignment with life.
It is not always necessary to remove the individual. It is possible
to remove his self-willed tendencies in order to effect an improvement
in the goals and gains of the whole. The technologies of
Psychopolitics are graduated upon a scale that starts somewhat
above the removal of the individual himself, concerning itself first
with the removal of those tendencies that bring about his lack of
cooperation.
It is not enough for the State to have goals. These goals, once put
forward, depend for their completion upon the loyalty and obedience
of the workers. These, engaged for the most part in hard labors,
have little time for idle speculation, which is good. But, above them,
unfortunately, there must be foremen in one or another position, any
one of whom might be sufficiently idle and lacking in physical occupation
to cause some disaffecting independence in his conduct and
behavior.
Psychopolitics remedies this tendency toward disaffection when it
supplants and overrides the common persuasions of the immediate
superiors of the person in question.