The use of force in this universe
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from
The Rehabilitation of the Human Spirit
lectures
But where this universe
at this time is concerned, this universe
at this time presents an aspect wherein
the greatest certainty which can be realized
by an individual is that its a cruel
universe. That he will eat as long as he
serves, as long as his force is great enough
to meet the situation, and he will die when
that force is no longer adequate to the
problem. And that is very close to
the truth.
Now, we take in this society a little child,
and we raise them up on sweetness and light:
that if you are a good boy, and do not employ
any force, the society will take care of
you and you will have justice, and youll
thisand its all love and sweet
sympathy.
Now, just because this kid is living in
the middle of a bunch of smoke-filled chimneys
and narrow streets in something called "culture,"
does not for one moment remove his environment
from the environment of the MEST universe,
which is essentially a cruel, dog-eat-dog
universe. In other words, hes being
falsely trained. Hes being trained
that hes living in some kind of a
special strata.
Well, now lets take an extremity:
Lets drop him into the ocean for a
moment where we have sharks, and we will
find out that not one shark present will
ask whether he is sweet or full of light
before he bites. The shark will bite regardless.
Not one of the acts of charity of this
individual will save him for a split instant
between the teeth of that shark. What will
save himif he had the force of prying
open the jaws of the shark and eating the
shark, that would save him.
So essentially, man is impractical. In
his effort to control his fellows, he has
fallen into a very dangerous situation,
and that situation is "that if one
is good enough, and if one is sweet enough,
and if one helps enough, he will then be
repaid by endless adoration and survival."
And this is not true, he will not be.
A man is as good as he can use effort,
use force and predict it. And hes
as bad off as he cannot predict on his own
part, or on the part of others, effort and
force. And thats about all you can
say about it.
Now, its true that if an individualand
Ive said this often in lectures, but
its generally missed, mostly because
I havent immediately followed it by
a process which remedies thiswhen
an individual is way above the ability to
generate almost unlimited force, then and
only then can he afford the rather expensive
luxury of sweetness, light, sympathy, kindness
and forbearance.
L. Ron Hubbard, from the lecture
FORCE, PART I
Excerpted
from The Rehabilitation
of the Human Spirit lectures
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