Something can be done about it
"Now,
the hideous thing is that people at large are not aware of
a very interesting thingthat anything at all can be
done about anybody. They are not aware that anything can be
done about anybody.
"The
cop who gives you a ticket takes it in his normal stride that
this is just the way it is. The hospital attendants who have
picked the remains out of the drunken-driving wreck, the very
best thought in various professions that should have
to do with this, are all agreed that there's nothing you can
do about it.
"And
that is the principal agreement you are running into when
you try to tell somebody about Scientology. Now, that's how
far south you have to go: Something can be done about it.
And if you were able to tell somebody, not about Scientology,
past lives or Dianetic prenatals, but just this: 'Something
can be done about maladjustment, poor behavior, poor control
and human relations that leave something to be desired.' Now,
if you could just drive that message home'Something
can be done about this'you would have accomplished more
in getting that person into two-way communication than almost
anything else you could do."

This
excerpt was taken from Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress.
Willingness to play the game
An article by
L. Ron Hubbard
excerpted from the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress
lectures.
Did it ever strike you that life at large could be as much
fun, on its broadest scale, in the fullest definition of a
nice football game? There could be as much enthusiasm to even
the small, mundane, ordinary things as there might possibly
be to playing a very exhilarating game? It's almost far-fetched,
isn't it, to think that talking to one's fellow man and engaging
in cashing a check and doing this and doing that could be
a continuous, exhilarating experience, even though it wasn't
big and huge and dramatic. ...
It isn't the amount of motion or action, it isn't the stake,
it isn't the grandeur of the trappings that make a game. It's
the willingness of those about us to play a game which makes
a game. And when we lose sight of that, we lose the game and
life becomes a serious, onerous, arduous, dog-eat-dog endeavor.
And the degree that people are unwilling to play the game
in this society is measured by the number of handcuffs, the
number of jails, the number of hospitals and institutions
and the number of laws.
Now, it takes a few laws to make a game. You'll always have
to have some barriers and restrictions to make a game. But
when you get too many, you get no game, except this game:
the game of making more laws that will make more laws necessary.
And thats a game for attorneys, but not for citizens.
Now, wherever we look, then, and find people miserable or
unhappy or believing that they could not possibly survive
or have a good time, all were looking at is a community
which is composed, in the majority, of people who cannot play
a game and will not let other people play one.
Now, that'sthat's an interesting thing. If we want
to classify and qualify the last stages of psychosis, it would
be "no game anywhere with nobody and that's thatperiod."
...
Now, the last stages of exit is simply "no game."
And when we get duress and punishment all out of proportion
to the communication necessary to continue a game, we get
no game.
Well now, some people may believe that there is a game in
going around and shooting, arresting, fighting, drawing people
up in battalions and firing by volley, or playing catch with
atom bombs between one agency in Washington and another agency
in Russia, but there arent very many participants to
this game, are there? There's no slightest chance for the
average citizen to participate in a game called atomic warfareno
slightest chance. They haven't even got a good civil defense
outfit that you could join, you know? ...
But here we have the common denominator of what we could
call civilization. Civilization would be, of course, a gradient
term. But we could say a good civilization would be that civilization
in which the individuals of which it was composed could play
a game and knew they could play a game and were playing a
game called culture. And if that attitude could exist, you
would immediately, of course, have human rights, respect for
ones fellowsall these things would fall into line.
These are symptoms of how well the game is going.
L.
Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture "THE
GAME CALLED MAN"
This lecture is available in the Anatomy of the Spirit of Man Congress lectures.
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