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Chapter 6


The General
Subject of Obedience
Obedience is the result of force. Everywhere we look in the
history of Earth we discover that obedience to new rulers has
come about entirely through the exercise of greater force on
the part of those rulers than was exercised by the old ruler. A population
overridden, conquered by war, is obedient to its conqueror. It
is obedient to its conqueror because its conqueror has exerted more
force.
Force comes in many forms. One of them is brutality. The most
barbaric, unrestrained, brutal use of force, if carried far enough,
invokes obedience. Savage force, sufficiently long deployed against
any individual, will bring about his concurrence with any principle
or order.
Force is the antithesis of humanizing action. It is so synonymous
in the human mind with savagery, lawlessness, brutality, and barbarism,
that it is only necessary to display an inhuman attitude
toward people, to be granted by those people the possession of force.
Any organization that has the spirit and courage to display inhumanity,
savagery, brutality, and an uncompromising lack of humanity,
will be obeyed. Such a use of force is, itself, the essential ingredient
of greatness. We cite no less an example than our great
Communist Leaders, who, in moments of duress and trial, when
faced by Czarist rule, maintained over an enslaved populace, yet
displayed sufficient courage never to stay their hands in the conversion
of the Russian State to Communist rule.

If you would have obedience you must
have no compromise with humanity. If you would have obedience you must make it clearly
understood that you have no mercy. Man is an animal. He understands,
in the final analysis, only those things that a brute understands.
As an example of this, we find an individual refusing to obey and
being struck. His refusal to obey is now less vociferous. He is struck
again, and his resistance is lessened once more. He is hammered and
pounded again and again, until, at length, his only thought is direct
and implicit obedience to that person from whom the force has come.
This is a proven principle. It is proven because it is the main principle
that Man, the animal, has used since his earliest beginnings. It is
the only principle that has been effective, the only principle that has
brought about a wide and continued belief. For it is to our benefit
that an individual who is struck again, and again, and again from a
certain source, will, at length, hypnotically believe anything he is
told by the wielder of the blows.
The stupidity of Western civilization is best demonstrated by the
fact that they believe hypnotism is a thing of the mind, of attention,
and a desire for unconsciousness. This is not true. Only when a person
has been beaten, punished, and mercilessly hammered, can hypnotism
upon him be guaranteed to be effective. It is stated by
Western authorities on hypnosis that only twenty percent of the people
are susceptible to hypnotism. This statement is untrue. Given
enough punishment, all people in any time and place are susceptible
to hypnotism. In other words, the addition of force makes hypnotism
uniformly effective. Where unconsciousness could not be
induced by simple concentration upon the hypnotist, unconsciousness
can be induced by drugs, by blows, by electric shock, and by
other means. And where unconsciousness cannot be induced so as
to make an implantation or an hypnotic command effective, it is only
necessary to amputate the functioning portions of the animal man’s
brain to render him null and void and no longer a menace. Thus, we
find that hypnotism is entirely effective.
The mechanisms of hypnotism demonstrate clearly that people
can be made to believe in certain conditions, and even in their environment
or in politics, by the administration of force. Thus, it is necessary
for a psychopolitician to be an expert in the administration of
force.

Thus, he can bring about implicit obedience,
not only on the part of individual members
of the populace, but on the entire popu-lace itself
and its government.