“You can discover that somebody who is very afraid of effort will do a lot of figure-figure on the effort. You would be amazed at some of the procedures of yesteryear which simply decided that instead of thinking about it, we would simply shove it through. …
“‘Well, let’s see now. We need a street through here. Well, street through here.’ And they’re liable to put one through there, even though the inhabitants are still in the houses.
“And you come by afterwards and you say, ‘Hey, what was the matter with you? You know, you know that you knocked down about eight houses while you were putting that…’
“‘Oh, did we? Well, that’s too bad. Well, we’ll build them another house.’ They would. You know, it isn’t that they would be mean about it. It’s just that. It’s just they wouldn’t think about it. An enormous amount of force.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture Elementary Material: Know to Mystery Scale delivered on 7 January 1955. This can be found in the 9th American ACC lectures. Track 4.
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