Balancing the use of
force and intelligence
An
article by L. Ron Hubbard, from the Saint
Hill New Civilization Series lectures
And what we're doing,
actually, so you won't be in the dark, is
we're closing out a very long cycle, of
a long, losing cycletremendous lengthof
the OT. The cycle of loss, of the OT. And
a being now had to come to a point where
he believedand couldn't do otherwisethe
only safe place to be was in one of these
meat-body civilizations, complete with airplanes,
and that that was the more or less winning
side of the ledger and there was no real
possibility of being free of that economic
duress, bethese two-bit games, these
accelerated aberrative conditions, as they
march forward. There was no going and sitting
on a mountaintop quietly for a few thousand
years and catching your breath. The fight
had been lost, in order words. In other
words, a strata and quality and character
of life had been lost. That is a defeat.
You don't see any OTs
walking around right now. Well, it's very
peculiar that they reach almost to modern
timesalmost to modern times. As you audit
pcs, you'll be quite surprised now and then
to find one that was OT five hundred years
ago.
You look on this normally
as something that occurred on the very,
very far backtrack, something that occurred
in the dimmest beginnings of history, but
in actual fact, this is not true at all.
These reach right up practically to present
time, but losing all the way.
There was no method of
retaining and maintaining a stability. ...
And eventually here you
sit, and what are you doing here? Well,
what you're doing here is you're in a meat
body, and you see the airplanes flying around
overhead, and you realize that the continuous
association with a meat body is just a continuous
concatenation of collecting engrams like
mad and keying in things like crazy, and
that it's the downward spiral with accelerated
jets behind it.
What made that condition?
How come this took place?
Well, all battles are
won by a combination of two elements, and
these are force and intelligence. And given
enough force, of course, there is no opposing
sideeverybody hopes. The United States
in World War II eventually got up to the
idea of a small task force had to practically
raise the level of water of the Pacific
Ocean before they would make an attack.
Tremendous, tremendous force. Tremendous
force.
And of course you take
something like an atomic bomb that can obliterate
an entire country, that is tremendous, tremendous
force. And it succeeds in short-term winsshort-term
wins. And that is all you ever get from
tremendous force is a short-term win, never
a long-term win. Never.
The long-term win is
achieved by a balance between force and
intelligence. Now, intelligence alone in
active action is not enough. The wise men
of Tibet were just a few years ago driven
out of their mountain fortresses by the
dumbest infantrymen the world has known
for some time. Isn't that interesting? They
were infinitely wise and their infinite
wisdom brought them total defeat.
So, when you take these
two elements, if you are sometime trying
to solve the problem of whether you did
right or whether you did wrong, take these
two elements and look them over in relationship
to what you did, and you'll find out that
there is an imbalance in any defeat. There
was an imbalance of intelligence and force,
these two things were out of gear. You're
either using all force and practically grasshopper
intelligence or you're using monumental
intelligence and saying "God will protect
me," forgetting at the same time that you
were the only god around to do any protecting.
It's sort of pathetic,
this OT sitting down on the Vatican steps
saying, "God will protect me," when he may
very well have started the whole myth. Where
does he think he still is?
Now, all of your losses
were contributed to by these two elements
out of balance. And any coordinated civilization
plowing forward, using technology, combining
that technology with force, keeping some
sort of balance between these two things,
can make a monkey out of an OTliterally.
There was an implant four galaxies over
that taught you, you came from apes. Darwinthat's
the whole of the Darwinian theory is implanted
there in the course of about a day and everybody
bought it. You know, you come up through
the mollusk and sloth and ape and all this
sort of thing and there's not a damn word
of truth in it, see. You see that? Nothing
to do with it.
L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture THE FREE BEING,
from the Saint
Hill New Civilization Series lectures
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