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Chapter 5

An Examination of Loyalties

If loyalty is so important in the economic and social structure, it is
necessary to examine it further in and of itself.In the field of
Psychopolitics, loyalty means simply "alignment". It means, more
fully, alignment with the goals of the Communist State. Disloyalty
means misalignment, and more broadly, misalignment with the goals
of the Communist State.
When we consider that the goals of the Communist State are to the
best possible benefit of the masses, we can see that disloyalty, as a
term, can include Democratic alignment. Loyalty to persons not
communistically indoctrinated would be quite plainly a misalignment.
The cure for disloyalty is contained within the principles of alignment.
All that is necessary to do, where disloyalty is encountered, is
to align the purposes of the individual toward the goals of communism,
and it will be discovered that a great many circumstances hitherto
distasteful in his existence will cease to exist.
Aheart or a kidney in rebellion against the remainder of the organism
could be seen as being disloyal to the remainder of the organism.
To cure that heart or kidney it is actually only necessary to bring its
activities into alignment with the remainder of the body.
The technology of Psychopolitics adequately demonstrates the
workability of this. Mild shock of the electric variety can, and does,
produce the recooperation of a rebellious body organ. It is the shock
and punishment of surgery which, in the main, accomplish the
realignment of a disaffection portion of the body, rather than the surgery
itself. It is the bombardment of x rays, rather than the therapeutic
value of x rays that causes some disaffected organs
to once again turn their attention to the support of the general organism.
While it is not proven that electric shock has any therapeutic
value, so far as making the individual more sane, it is adequately
proven that its punishment value will create in the patient a more
cooperative attitude. Brain surgery has no statistical data to recommend
it beyond its removal of the individual personality from
amongst the paths of organs that were not permitted to cooperate.
These two Russian developments have never pretended to alter the
state of sanity. They are effective and workable only in introducing
an adequate punishment mechanism to the personality to make it
cease and desist from its course and its egotistical control of the
anatomy itself. It is the violence of the electric shock and the surgery
that is useful in subduing the recalcitrant personality, which is all
that stands in the road of the masses of the State. It is occasionally to
be discovered that the removal of the negative personality by shock
and surgery then permits the regrowth and reestablishment of
organs that have been misdirected by that personality. In that a wellregulated
state is composed of organism, not personalities, the need
for electric shock and brain surgery in Psychopolitics is clearly
demonstrated.
The changing of loyalty consists, in its primary step, of the eradication
of existing loyalties. This can be done in one of two ways.
First, by demonstrating that previously existing loyalties have
brought about perilous physical circumstances, such as imprisonment,
lack of recognition, duress, or privation, and second, by eradicating
the personality itself.
The first is accomplished by a steady and continuous indoctrination
of the individual in the belief that his previous loyalties have
been wasted on an unworthy source. One of the primary instances
of this is creating circumstances that apparently derive from the target
of his loyalties, so as to rebuff the individual. Part of this is the
creation of a state of mind in the individual, by actually placing him
under duress, and then furnishing him with false evidence to demonstrate
that the target of his previous loyalties is, itself, the cause of the
duress.