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them for nearly a century when Caesar's vicious ambitions actually wrecked
the smooth progress of Rome by enforced expansion by arms in excess of the
demand for Roman products. This was one Roman product nobody wanted-Caesar
and his legions.
Psychiatry's product of further insanity was not in demand by the people
but by the state which sought to crush people or at least hold them down.
So psychiatry expanded by government regulation not by popular demand and
so at this writing stands in danger of complete extinction, for its
influence depends utterly on "expanding" into the legislatures and
government treasuries and no expansion whatever of any demand from the
public and no product except slaughter.
The Roman Catholic Church once had a healing product, by actual
treatment and by relics and miracles and was in great demand by the public
and eventually even the barbarians. But she began to fight progress in
science and knowledge and her product turned into exported ignorance backed
by autos-da-fe (burning heretics) and thus ceased to expand and today is
rapidly shrinking.
Buddhism, earlier than that, expanded continuously as it never sought
new extension of territory other than that of learning. Buddhism failed in
India alone because its monks became licentious, ceased to deliver true
teachings and were swept up, most likely, in India alone, by the Muslim
conquest of that unhappy country sometime around the seventh century.
Britain of the 20th Century actively sought to contract her empire and
did so to the tune of internal economic catastrophe.
SINGLE PRINCIPLE
Thus it should be obvious that contraction leads to death and expansion
to life providing that one maintains a demand for itself and the will and
skill to produce and deliver a product.
If as ours is, the product is very beneficial and if we continue to
produce and deliver the demand is assured. In this we are fortunate. And we
are also fortunate that try as they will no squirrel is ever able to
duplicate our product since one variation (that of changed brand) leads to
others and they promptly have neither product nor demand-that observation
is itself empirical. No squirrel has lasted more than 2 or 3 years in the
past sixteen years. And there have been many. That they squirrel shows
enough bad faith to drive away the public the moment the public hears of
the original.
Thus, providing we maintain the will and skill to produce and deliver we
can expand and proper expansion that will continue is possible.
All our policy then is built on EXPANSION. It assumes we wish to
survive. And it stresses the production and delivery of a straight non-
squirrel product.
It is calculated to ensure a continued and widening demand by ensuring
that product remains good and beneficial.
The technology itself is complete but it expands also by experience of
administration of it and simplifying its presentation.
But to alter the basics of the technology will stop expansion because it
is what we are producing, not what we are building.
We are building a better universe. It has not been a good universe to
live in so far but it can be.
Our punitive force is our Ethics system and it exists to ensure the
quality of the product and to prevent the blunting of demand for the
product.