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"And when your thought gets into bad shape and you're not directing
it well at all, it'll turn into matter eventually, but the wrong way! So that
when you try to go in through MEST energy and action into the real universe
just as suchMEST action only, with no aesthetic, no art, no dream, none
of these things you're just going to go into the present, and that's not good
enough. It's good enough for a raving psychotic to be in present, but it's not
good enough for you.
"Now, when you take the will to do action and to that you add aesthetics,
shape, form, dreams, illusion, now you're moving up into the real band of sanity.
That is the real band.
"There's an old, old poem that says, 'And the best of a man is gone
when the best of his dreams is dead.' And it finishes up to the effect that when
the last of his dreams is dead, he's dead too. And that's very true. But actually,
when the last of his dreams is dead, he's just moved into present time only. That's
a hideous place to be! So I just give you the difference of goals."
L. Ron Hubbard

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Aesthetics and the Tone Scale
An article by L. Ron Hubbard,
from The Route to Infinity lectures
And then we go way up on the Tone Scale to a figure that looks like
a point that many zeros out, and we get the wavelength of aestheticsvery,
very high. And yet not so high that we couldn't duplicate it today with our electronics.
But it's way up there! That's aesthetics.
And you get a person as he drops down the Tone Scale, he becomes less and less
able to do aesthetics or appreciate aesthetics. One of the most aberrative incidents
you had in yourin
this lifetime, by the way, was running up to one of your parents and saying, "It's
pretty," and they say, "Well, Junior, wash your hands for dinner."
In other words, they said, "Aestheticsphhh.
Aestheticsnah.
What you want to be is practical!" The use of "practicality" is
very poor.
But do you know that the aesthetic wavelength and that band immediately below
it and above it and aroundthe
mid-band of aestheticsis
practically a disintegrator wave; it just thaws through all thought of a lower
tone.
You can produce a piece of beauty or, if you please, an aesthetic ugliness
of such magnitude that you just stop people in their tracks! You can blow
away and erase their anger, hate, discomfort or anything else with an aesthetic.
But when you can generate an aesthetic that high, you are so high up the Tone
Scale that you practically own them. And they realize it, and they say, "Hm!
Oh!"
The way you really fix up a society is to kill all its artists, like they do
in the United States. They don't let an artist exist in this country. One of the
things they do is they try to teach him in the university. You can't teach the
guy aesthetics. He has to come clear down here on the band of the Tone
Scalephewto
get into MEST communication level with somebody who is going to teach him about
something which iswhssht!way
up here. Can't do it. An artist is an artist. And any one of you is an artist
if you are up in that band, if you can emanate that band. Nothing, nothing under
the sun will mold up faster than that band. It'll go into anything.
A story somebody mentioned to me the other night: a verya
crowd became very angry at an artist in some ancient civilization; it became furious
with this artist because he has taken a slave and had made the slave pose so long
and so arduously that the slave had sickened and died. And the artist had used
him as a model, and the crowd grew very, very angry and they were storming his
doors and about to tear the house down, when the artist simply walked out and
held up the picture he had made of that slave. And the crowd stopped, and that
stopped all the motion as far as they were concerned and they went home. That
was the answer.
Now, there's communication. And the highest level of communication there is,
is art, and the lowest level there is, is a whip. And you can take your choice
in a society of whether or not it's going to be an aesthetic or a whip.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture WAVELENGTHS OF ARC
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