“Well, as we’ve said before, one horse walking down the street of a small town could be too many particles for one man and therefore he would be confused. He would see a horse walking down the street and he’d say, ‘I’m confused,’ see.
“Another fellow’s tolerance of confusion is about, well, I don’t know, Piccadilly Circus* at the rush hour. And he’d say, ‘How calm. How tame,’ you know? He can tolerate that, that’s nothing.
“Well, these two chaps have different expectancies and both of them have different ideas about what must or mustn’t happen again.
“And the fellow who says ‘It mustn’t happen again’ has narrowed everything down to ‘it mustn’t happen again,’ has got one horse walking down one quiet street and he’s saying, ‘That’s confusing.’ Why is he saying it’s confusing? Because he said, ‘That mustn’t happen again,’ too. You see?”
— L. Ron Hubbard
*Piccadilly Circus: an intersection at an open circular area located in western London, England, where six busy streets come together. A circus is an open circle, square or plaza where several streets converge.
Excerpted from the lecture Six Levels of Processing, Issue 5, Level Four delivered on 9 November 1955. This can be found in the Rehabilitating Power of Choice lectures. Track 3.
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