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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 FEBRUARY 1965
General Non-Remimeo
BPI
POLITICS
Now and then you hear me speak derisively of governments and ideologies-
including democracy.
If, by seeing I criticize an ideology, anyone seeks to believe I embrace
its opposite,
he has failed to get the point.
What political system could work amongst very aberrated people?
A democracy or a Communism would be a huge joke in an insane asylum.
Well,
isn't it?
The basic building block of any political system is the individual. One
can seek to
avoid this point by conceiving of the masses. But you can't have masses
which aren't
made up of single units. Therefore the single unit is the basis of a mass.
No political system applied to a colony of monkeys would have anything
to
govern but monkeys. That's plain, certainly.
A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and
barbaric
people could have marvellous principles but could only succeed in being
ignorant,
illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and
cured the
ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
The collective think of apes is ape-think. A Fascism led by and applied
to idiots
would be idiot-Fascism.
So there is no reason to suppose any political system is any better than
those who
use it to govern or be governed.
The only difference in existing systems of politics is their relative
values in giving
the individual a chance to develop and receive a higher level of personal
sanity and
ability.
That rules out any system which witch hunts, freezes opportunity, or
suppresses
the right to improve by any workable system or suppresses a workable
system.
Watching the U.S. and Australia fight Scientology with blind fury while
supporting oppressive mental and religious practices proves that democracy,
applied to
and used by aberrated people, is far from an ideal activity and is only
aberrated
democracy.
Every human has in common with every other human the same reactive bank.
This is the most they have in common.
The reactive bank-unconscious mind, whatever you care to call it-
suppresses all
decent impulses and enforces the bad ones.
Therefore a democracy is a collective-think of reactive banks. Popular
opinion is
bank-opinion.
Any human group is likely to elect only those who will kill them. That's
concluded from actual 1950 experiments.