When in doubt do the usual, the routine, the standard.

The other evening, on a request, I said members of the company could do part-time study on the Dianetics Course. This became an absolute order, an arbitrary which was put in full force. Not only that, but nobody would handle it.If anyone had bothered to trace the order that “all must study” they would have found it was a false arbitrary.

If your hat says recruit, recruit. Don’t do tool purchasing.

Almost every outness around is of this breed of arbitrary.

WHEN A POST DOES NOT DO ITS USUAL ACTIONS THESE BACKLOG AND APPEAR AS TRAFFIC AND DEMANDS.

A group that insists on sitting in the glorious irresponsibility of orders and only orders will never develop into a true group.

The post goes into desperation and tries to cope and, failing to do what it was supposed to do in the first place, just goes more desperate.

If you want to get a real look at what you’re doing, ask yourself this question: Where do I get my orders from?

A post will run wrong so long as it does not do the usual. And it will go wronger and wronger.

I get them from observation of the situation. And I give instructions based on a prediction of consequences.

Like auditing a pc. Every shortcut, every unusual solution, just makes the pc worse. You can’t go on with unusual solutions forever. The pc will collapse.

Until you can do that, you will feel harassed, ordered around and oppressed. Not because anybody is interested in oppressing anyone. Just because they try to make a safe environment, bump into people who haven’t observed or acted, and so issue orders.

So it is with a post.

I don’t think anybody fully understands the antipathy I have to authoritarian rule. The reason you see me get cross is in no small part protest at being forced to cope with a situation which occurs by neglect of others. Why elect me to save the day? This ship, this planet and universe are the concern of others too. I have no monopoly on the ability to observe and act.

Do what the post is supposed to do in the first place. Cope part of the time, yes. But somehow get in the usual action.

The campaign to force into a dictatorship a group which has freedom as its main objective is about as popular with me as a fire in a powder factory.

If you don’t you will feel desperate, 9,000 feet up and in a hurricane.

Freedom depends on ability.

EVERY personnel line has gotten in this state.

Failing to recruit and do the usual has backlogged HASes over the world to a point of total desperation. Yet I see no Personnel Procurement Officers single-hatted on post in orgs. I see no new campaign for recruits. I see no hammer to get standard forms signed.

Thus by not doing the basic usual actions, each HAS is going mad trying to answer people who are demanding personnel. Then the HAS musical chairs the place, destroys the org form.

WHY? Because the usual action of PPOs on post and records and lines and personnel promo were not done.

Not doing the usual resulted in desperate solutions.

This is the way any post goes when it backlogs. It backlogs for lack of the usual. Then it goes into total desperation.

The way to get out of the mess is each day do a couple hours of the usual regardless of traffic and demands.

And surprise! One will dig out of it and get on top of it.

One has to know three facts.

1. The usual solution already exists. One has to find out or work out what it is.

2. Unusual actions will backlog one and if continued will drown one.

3. One can dig himself out if he spends some time each day getting the usual lined up and in.

One’s full hat usually contains the usual. A starter is to get the full hat and know it.