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The group succeeds only by the efforts of individuals who rise above their banks and do their best for their fellows despite the vicious character of groups and the idiot nature of collective-think. Believe in the individual being and work with him and you will find he is basically good. Work only with a group and you work with collective-think which is basically bank and therefore evil. Scientology gives us our first chance to have a real democracy. By freeing from the worst aberrations each individual, one then achieves a group which doesn't react only on bank and which will be, like the individual, basically good. For the bank was made to keep people who were not bad from going bad. It was a mistake. So it is bad. We prove daily in Scientology that an individual freed of aberrations reacts more decently toward his fellows and that an individual, restimulated, acts worse; we prove that the individual under stress of aberration is unreasonable and an individual freed is bright. So we can conclude on actual evidence that the first true democracy will emerge when we have freed each individual of the more vicious reactive impulses. Such beings can reason, can agree on decent and practical measures and be depended upon to evolve beneficial measures. Until we have done that we will continue to be critical of human "democracy"- and any other political philosophy advanced upon Man as a cure for his ills. A political philosophy can't audit. We can. And don't be so sensitive to popular reaction. Just get on with making a saner world and it will all come out all right. L. RON HUBBARD LRH:jw.rd Copyright © 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED