Chapter XV: Proposals Which Must Be Avoided
Psychopolitical Operations Manual | L. Ron Hubbard | 16 Chapters

PROPOSALS WHICH MUST BE AVOIDED

Any intellectual and visible agreement with the dialog of our manual should be avoided. The general populace should be made to believe that this text does not exist. Its existence should be kept within a small circle, and, if any section is discovered, it should be immediately denied as a Communist plot.

States should be taught to overlook the possibility that any who claim to be psychopoliticians are actually Communists. Any and all references to the Communist Party should be avoided in relation to the subject of mental healing.

The field of literature dealing with insanity should be kept at a minimum, and any who speak of producing books on insanity should be discredited. The Communist Party should never be mentioned as a connection with such works, and the psychopolitician should not be identified as a Communist in any area.

The psychopolitical operative should never disclose his true intentions. He should avoid any efforts to show that his activities differ from good behavior. If forced to admit failure, he should attribute it to the opposition or to forces beyond his control.

When the service of the psychopolitician is exposed as a connection with the Communist Party, the psychopolitician should be identified as having been recently recruited or as an innocent victim, or a confused, well-intentioned healer. That he is rewarded by money should be made a matter of public notice, and that any statements he has made can be attributed only to the demands of his office.

In the matter of youth movements, the psychopolitician should encourage the idea that sex, music and art are forms of freedom, and that rebellion to the moral codes of the society is the highest form of liberty. He should usher the youth toward libertarian attitudes, while at the same time moving them toward discreditable organizations. He should teach that corruption is the natural state of man, and that elevated moral ideals are too difficult to attain.