Lecture: Cause and Effect, Automaticity, Ridges Processing (2)
Author: Hubbard, L. R.
Document date: 1953, 2 November
Document title: Cause and Effect, Automaticity, Ridges Processing
Document type: lecture transcript
Event: First American Advanced Indoctrination Course
Location: Camden, New Jersey
Document ID: 1ACC-46
Description: Hubbard discusses plus- and minus- randomity, and religion.
When we look – when we look at a big social organism we’ll see this tremendous effort to maintain a certain randomity1 within its own tolerance level. And it has decided, one way or another, that its tolerance level for randomity was so-and-so, and then everything it moves in is just to adjust that.
But the hideous part of this universe is, it is very seldom that anybody ever decides he has minus randomity. It’s all plus randomity, plus randomity, plus randomity. Germany – the one European nation that periodically considers that it has minus randomity and it starts raising hell – it says, “There’s just not enough randomity in the rest of Europe; we’ll make some.” And they do. They go out and blow everything up and get motion in all directions and so forth and get blown up themselves.
And then we think that will teach them a lesson. Well, what did you think they were trying to do? Teach them a lesson? No, it merely confirmed what they were trying to do in the first place. They have their randomity; they get it every twenty years; couldn’t do without it. It’s like you have to feed a baby every two and a half, three and a half hours. All right. We have, then, a culture – a cultural speed, you might say. And when somebody comes in and exceeds this speed that’s real rough.
Well, the early boys who came into the United States were trying to get away from reasonable and rational people. And they had a rough time of it because they had been kicked out of everything; they were minus randomity people. And they finally came over here, and boy, they – did they find plus randomity like mad. The wolverines and coyotes and bison and Indians were quite a bit. And these boys were real hard and they were real tough.
And they – early groups were subscribing up in the New England states to a chap by the name of Calvin. Calvin always called himself the “maitre.” I don’t know what he was the maitre of the maitre d’hotel or something of the sort. He was the guy that had, every time anybody thought anything, why, Calvin’s only answer to this was “Hang him.” But not spectacularly – please! Hang him quietly.
And Calvin’s reformation took that renaissance that was just starting and threw it into a nearby cesspool. And all was evil, as far as Calvin was concerned. I guess he figured it out on the basis of all was sex or something because he had been in connection with too many Catholic priests. And so he decided that the best way we had better handle this whole situation is just give everybody zero randomity.
Well, the Puritan and so on came over here and they had already imbibed this poison. And what’s made this country remarkable is the fact that it’s running on a zero-randomity goal with the country itself just raising hell with them all the time and giving them plus randomity. And between the two of these you’ve got a perpetuation and a persistence the like of which nobody ever heard of do you see? You got plus randomity enforced upon the people with a tremendous, tremendous desire for no randomity by their own creeds. And it has just made a very exciting playground for an awful lot of thetans.
Anyway, you get the history of any new country. And no new country on Earth in recent millennia has done this incredible thing of being utterly sold on minus randomity, and then going in suddenly into a country that had the plusest randomity there was on the face of Earth, See?
Hubbard, L. R. (1953, 2 November). Cause and Effect, Automaticity, Ridges Processing. First American Advanced Indoctrination Course, (1ACC-46). Lecture conducted from Camden, New Jersey.