[Sharing Lights]

To be obeyed, one must be believed. If one is sufficiently believed,
one will unquestioningly be obeyed.
When he is fortunate enough to get his hands on anyone close to a
political or important figure, this factor of obedience becomes very
important. A certain amount of fear or terror must be engendered in
the person under treatment so that this person will then take orders
immediately, completely, and unquestioningly, from the psychopolitical
operative, and so be able to influence the actions of the person
who is to be reached.
Bringing about this state of mind on the part of a populace and its
leaders—that a psychopolitical operative must, at all times be
believed—could eventually be attended by very good fortune.
It is not too much to hope that psychopolitical
operatives would then, in a country such as the United States, become the most intimate advisors
to political figures, even to the point of advising the entirety of a
political party as to its actions in an election.
The long view is the important view. Belief is engendered by a certain
amount of fear and terror from an authoritative level, and this
will be followed by obedience.
The general propaganda that would best serve Psychopolitics
would be a continual instance that certain authoritative levels of
healing deemed this or that discipline to be the only correct treatment
of insanity. These treatments must always include a certain amount
of brutality. Propaganda should continue to stress the rising incidence
of insanity in a country. The entire field of human behavior,
for the benefit of the country, can, at length, be broadened into abnormal
behavior. Thus, anyone indulging in any eccentricity, particularly
the eccentricity of combating psychopolitics, could be silenced
by the authoritative opinion on the part of a psychopolitical operative
that he was acting in an abnormal fashion. This, with some good
fortune, could bring the person into the hands of the psychopolitical
operative so as to forevermore disable him, or swerve his loyalties by
pain-drug hypnotism.
On the subject of obedience itself, the optimum obedience is
unthinking obedience. The command given must be obeyed without
any rationalizing on the part of the subject. The command must,
therefore, be implanted below the thinking processes of the subject to
be influenced, and must react upon him in such a way as to produce
no mental alertness on his part.
It is in the interest of Psychopolitics that a population be told that
an hypnotized person will not do anything against his actual will,
will not commit immoral acts, and will not act so as to endanger himself.
While this may be true of light, parlour hypnotism, it certainly
is not true of commands implanted with the use of electric shock,
drugs, or heavy punishment. The operative counts heavily on the
general public’s faith in the more benign perception of hypnotic
power, for if it were to be generally known that individuals would
obey commands harmful to themselves, and would commit immoral
acts while under the influence of deep hypnotic commands, the
actions of many people, working unknowingly in favor of communism,
would be too well understood. People acting under deep hypnotic
commands should be acting apparently of their own
volition and out of their own convictions.
The entire subject of psychopolitical hypnosis, Psychopolitics in
general, depends for its defense upon the continuous insistence on
the part of authoritative sources that such things are not possible.
And, should anyone unmask a psychopolitical operative, the operative
should at once declare the whole thing to be a physical impossibility
and use his authoritative position to discount any accusation.
Should any writings of Psychopolitics come to view, it is only necessary
to brand them a hoax and laugh them out of existence. Thus,
psychopolitical activities are easy to defend.
When psychopolitical activities have reached a certain peak, from
there on it is almost impossible to undo them, for the population is
already under the duress of obedience to the psychopolitical operatives
and their dupes. The ingredient of obedience is important, for
the complete belief in the psychopolitical operative renders his statement
canceling any challenge to psychopolitical operations
irrefutable. The optimum circumstance would be to occupy every
position that would be consulted by officials whenever the subject of
Psychopolitics came under question. Thus, a psychiatric advisor
should be placed near to hand in every government operation. As all
suspicions would then be referred to him, no action would ever be
taken, and the goal of communism could be realized in that nation.
Psychopolitics depends, from the viewpoint of the layman, upon
its fantastic aspects. These are its best defense, but above all else is
implicit obedience on the part of officials and the general public
because of the role of the psychopolitical operative in the field of
healing.

to be continued to Chapter 7 later