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selection been followed ruthlessly despite all politics over the years.
King, Nimitz and Short would not have been in charge or would have acted by
policy had they been. The fleet would have been at sea during negotiations
and the strike on Pearl Harbour would have been a Jap bust. The fleet would
have been there to knock out the Jap in his own home ports. The war might
have ended with Japan in the first six weeks. The point is not whether it
is good or bad to have a Navy. The point is that here is an actual
organization and an actual occurrence.
Therefore one can learn that:
An individual, species, organism, organization, to succeed, survive and
expand in influence must have a formulated BASIC PURPOSE.
To keep beings from growing, the reactive bank is almost entirely made
up of false and booby trapped purposes. Thus we can see that, by its having
been impeded so thoroughly in past ages, the idea of having a personal or
organizational or group basic purpose is an extremely valuable one.
Without one expressed or unexpressed, a being or an organization or
group without one doesn't grow but shrinks and becomes weak-in this
universe nothing can remain long in an unchanging state. Given a
potentially successful basic purpose that is acceptable to the being,
organization or group, one can then formulate POLICY.
POLICY is a rule or procedure or a guidance which permits the BASIC
PURPOSE to succeed.
The basic purpose runs through time. When it is impeded, distracted
from, not complied with, thwarted or stopped, a state of failure of the
basic purpose occurs in greater or lesser degree. Sometimes challenges to
it cause it to strengthen but only when the challenges are consistently
overcome.
A being, organism, organization, group or species or race learns in
forwarding its basic purpose or meeting challenges to its basic purpose
certain lessons. Certain procedures or courses of action, rules or laws
were conceived at times of stress and some of them were successful. Those
that were not successful or helped the opposition were bad. Those that were
successful forwarded of course the basic purpose and were good.
The successful ideas or procedures that assisted the basic purpose were
then dignified by the status of proper ideas, acts, procedure or policy.
Those that were unsuccessful in assisting the basic purpose became bad
policy.
Ideas or procedures that distracted from or balked the basic purpose
were called offenses.
Things, groups, other determinisms that challenged or sought to stop or
refused to comply with the basic purpose became enemies or opposition.
Therefore Policy is derived from successful experience in forwarding the
basic purpose, overcoming opposition or enemies, ending distractions and
letting the basic purpose flow and expand.
Policy laid down which is thought up independent of experience in
similar situations is either the result of great foresight and is
successful or it is simply stupidity, in that it seeks to handle situations
which will never exist or if they do, won't be important.
Policy based solely on bad rumours, unverified, which may or may not
reflect actual existing conditions or which is laid down at the insistence
of some self-interested person or minority without taking the rest of the
group into account is very destructive policy simply because it does not
match the conditions which actually exist and so, in itself, may impede or
distract from the basic purpose. An example of this is legislation by
legislators who, otherwise uninformed, act because of pressure groups,
minority riots or simply sensational press that seeks not legislation but
simply to feed the appetite of a disaster hungry public.
If bad policy or laws or actions based on rumour rather than raw facts
become too frequent and general, then the basic purpose of a being,
organization or group becomes itself distracted, smothered and forgotten
and the result is shrinkage, loss of power, death and oblivion. Although it
is often too late when bad policies or pressure group laws have been the
order of the day to slash them all from the books and exhume the basic
purpose, the action of sweeping away unreal, inapplicable and impeding laws
and policies which were based originally on rumour and bad sources can