Polit Book 政治書

Titled "政治書", this unassuming black book contains Khalite ideological teachings and wisdom.
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"We must improve our lives, and we will do it together - all citizens and myself, Father. The Father leads our glorious revolution. Every citizen is a part of that revolution. It is not my place to judge you by how you look, but by how you act. The Law holds you to be equal. The color of the skin and blood, the rigidity of your spine, the shape of your brain, the number of fingers you have or don't have-- these things shall not be the measure of your worth. The measure of your worth comes from what you DO, by your ingenuity, selflessness, and courage."

"I see my citizens, and I do not see animals. I see people with souls, with minds, with hearts, with dreams, with convictions... and I extend my hand down to them, and I say: 'Come with me. I need you. Together, we can do great things.' Strength, happiness, personal worth-- Khalite believes that these things are achieved by action, and that is how it should be. These things come from the content of your heart and character. Believe in yourself. Believe in me. Believe in the will of the revolution."

"There is an immense space of contradiction, a room for maneuver. A space that we waste by our confusion, by our wavering, by our failure to equip the will and the imagination. Hope is not the cause of action, so much that it is the consequence of action. We acquire hope by acting, practically, or intellectually."

"Finding out the reasons why we should do as we do is not easy. And when it is easy, it is made easy by emotion, be they negative or positive. The pursuits of life are almost never truly governed by an equitable, compassionate logic."

"Father gives dreams, and people are led by their dreams."

"Trust is harder to find than precious gems. This makes trust very valuable... if you CAN find it, and keep it, then you should. A distrust in the concept of trust is a neutering of the heart."

"Every servant has their place, no matter how lowly or modest. To know it is their greatest comfort, to excel within it is their greatest solace, and her master's contentment is the greatest reward."

"The warrior who acts out of honor cannot fail. Her duty is honor itself. Even her death - if it is honorable - is a reward and can be no failure, for it has come through duty. Seek honor as you act, therefore, and you will know no fear."

"What is the terror of death? That we die our work incomplete. What is the joy of life? To die knowing our task is done."

"Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane."

"The future years to come will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then humanity's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, some continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. A number of foreign nations sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among Khalite eugenicists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.”

"One problem is the practical basis of social solidarity. Money transfers organized by the state are not adequate, as a basis for social solidarity. Especially when the ethnic and cultural homogeneity of the society declines. The only adequate basis of social solidarity is direct responsibility to take care of other people beyond the boundaries of one's own self-interest."

"What we want is an equality in a shared 'bigness', in a largeness of life. That is the true objective of progress! Society and sapience must be Divinized, lifted up. So if freedom means bigness, if freedom is just another name for our power to transcend boundaries and enrich our lives, then indeed freedom is the supreme goal."

"Refusing to allow people to be paid less than a living wage preserves to us our own market. There is absolutely no use in producing anything if you gradually reduce the number of people able to buy even the cheapest products. The only way to preserve our markets is an adequate wage-- a minimum wage."

"Market capitalism, centralized socialism, corporatism. You may ask, that if we are arguing against these systems, what is our alternative? The alternative is the realization that more than profit, or social security, people need a purpose. A higher purpose! Something to give themselves over to, something to contribute to so they may feel good about themselves and their personal achievements. You must take the systems of labor, and rethink them. The work of the 'lower classes', the drudgery of working in the soil, in the factories, in the places where the potential of the sentient mind is wasted, you must replace the labor of people with the labor of machines. The work that can be readily repeated, you must give over to the machines. You must industrialize and expand infrastructure, produce more energy, produce it more reliably, and create a network of robotic laborers that can free the people from the undignified aspects of labor, labor for simple survival. The ultimate goal must be post-scarcity; the creation of conditions where individuals need not work to be fed, clothed, housed, and taken care of. But, you may say, then no one will work! People will be lazy! Some may behave as you say, in a crisis of labor where the masses are not utilized... but what you must realize is the implications of the new freedom to do more to fulfill the needs of the self, not the body. With more free time, in this post-scarcity society, people can pursue the arts, and the sciences, and become part of a greater vocational society where career and continued learning become the dominant socioeconomic multipliers that empower the society. The post-scarcity society acquires more musicians, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, geologists, botanists, philosophers, critical thinkers, and experts of all kinds. With the freedom from drudgery and undignified labor, the breadth and scope of life can expand to newer and greater heights. In the first primal years of sentient civilization, the hunter-gatherers gave way to the agriculturalists. With less time devoted to hunting and moving, people could devote more time to learning and creativity. It was a Revolution in Life. Post-scarcity is lifted upwards on the wings of technology, innovation, and the proactive application of machines to eliminate the lesser labors. It is another Revolution in Life. It is destiny when such seeds are planted and you watch them grow. From a tiny seed... grows something truly mighty and wonderful."

"What is power? Power, say, the political scientists is the ability to get things done. That's the point of it, that's why politicians and parties compete for power, and to get into power, because when you are in power, you have in your hands that magic that enables you to get things done. That's why we in Khalite traditionally believe that governments should be strong, because they then have the power to get things done. But power is NOT the ability to get things done, I say. There is more to the doing than bidding it be done. Power is at play when governors are up against others. The governor is the one who wants something done, and the others are those the governor depends on affecting to make that happen. There are two types of power. The power of governors over others, and the power of others over governors. Power sits on both sides of the exchange, and it is not what governors bring to bear on others, but something that both sides bring to bear on each other. Governing, then, is not a matter of getting things done. It is always a matter of getting others to get things done. Always, others intervene. That gives them power. Do not underestimate the powerful intervening agency of others. The reason power is not the ability to get things done, is that the distance from 'power' to 'done' is long and the space between the two is twisted and full of obstacles. The governor has the right to make decisions, which others are supposed to act on, but again, there's more to the doing than bidding it be done. There's more to it for three reasons; First, political decisions produce only inputs into getting things done. A government may increase the defense budget, but that still leaves open the question what use the military will make of those additional means. Second, if things are eventually to happen, the decisions that start the process must be well-made and the right ones. That depends on how good the decision-makers are, both on how competent they are individually, and on how well they collaborate, such as by avoiding infighting or groupthink. The power of office is a certificate to be the decision-maker, but no more a driving license says how good a driver the holder is. Does power say how good a 'getter done' a decision-maker is? It also depends-- and crucially --on procedure. If the decision-making procedure is a mess, what comes out of it will be a mess. In decision-making, things WILL go wrong if there are not orderly procedures in place to prevent it. And thirdly, inputs need to be processed further into outcomes. As power leads to inputs through decisions, inputs lead to outcomes through implementation. Effective implementation depends on administrative order, that administrators get the job done that is put to them, and on a cultural compliance in the population, so that underlings have enough trust in and confidence in their leaders to, more or less, do as they are told."

"In the process, the power of the governor sits at the start, and things happen at the end. And whether the governor has much or little power, what comes out at the end may be what he has intended, something else, something that doesn't work, something better, or nothing. Now, the power of others sits in the governor's dependency on the other for getting his decision pushed through to things happening at the other end of the process. An administrator is dependent on both his officials doing what he puts to them, and on people throughout the country complying. All these others have the power to go along with their administrator or to subvert, disregard, drag their feet, turn their backs, or refuse. And those the governor really depends on, have as much power over him, as he has over them. So governors and others are up against each other. The governor can either command or persuade. The more power he can lean on, the more he can command. The more the power of others, the more he must rely on persuasion. Almost always, there are counter-powers. And once we grasp the powerful intervening agency of others, we see that governance is mainly a business of persuasion. Commanding is either impossible, or counter-productive, and a good leader is one who knows the art of persuasion. Now what makes people accept persuasion is not power, but authority, which is a very different commodity. A governor with authority can persuade reluctant others to go along with his wishes, or even make them think and believe what he wants of them is really what they want, too. And the authority of a governor is in the eyes of others, just as beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. And when underlings see that spark of authority, it works wonders. If servants acknowledge their superiors as their lords, they bear natural affection for them. Authority is contained in the willingness of others to listen and be persuaded. No governor has any other authority than that which he is able to extract from others."

"Give anyone the power of a god, and you better hope they possess the wisdom and morals of a god to match. There's nothing feeble about my moral line. I value life. That is why I fight to protect it. I mourn every comrade I lose and every sacrifice I make. One life or a billion, they're all lives."

"Your foe is well-equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. They believe gods are on their side. Let them believe what they will. We have the tanks on ours."

"No great deed was ever accomplished without fanaticism."

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."

"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

"You can often learn more from failure than you can from victory. Failure can be a great teacher."

"There are no such things as 'rights'. Rights are an idea, a figment of the imagination. A country will tell you that their rights are precious... but rights, given the proper circumstances, can be taken away. And if rights can be taken away, they're not rights. They're privileges, nothing more."

"Greed can be both an enemy and an ally. People want things. This is a fact. Materialism and consumerism can be tools of control, yet they can also be sources of corruption and weakness. I reject the ideas of materialism and consumerism, in that I believe they shouldn't be the primary guiding forces of life. In peace, many nations drown their sorrows in consumption and try to remain asleep. They do this under the instruction of philosophers, politicians, and entertainers who promote the poisonous doctrine that there are no alternatives in the world, to this need to consume in order to achieve happiness."

"To succeed, you must be willing to embrace failure. When you grapple with a conflict, you must always keep the idea in reserve that if you fail, you mustn't panic. If you fail, the only thing you can do is attempt to pick yourself up... and try again. Never quit. Never give up. The person who can most easily defeat you is your own self."

"Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

"It must be remembered that liberty and democracy are not synonymous in spite of the fact that these two terms are frequently conflated in 'democracies'. Numerical majorities are not necessarily keen to preserve civil liberties; the demand for civil liberties- and privileges -always arose from select minorities. Allegedly genuine 'democratic' societies can be brutally cruel to those who dare to be 'different' in an unconventional way."

"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. To die selfishly, like a coward, is to die a thousand small deaths before the finality of true death. To die selflessly, for a greater cause, is the ultimate act of self-expression towards purpose."

"What fear of death have we who know there is immortality in the great and noble deeds of humanity?"

"There is a difference between democracy and freedom. Freedom is not measured by the ability to vote. It is measured by the breadth of those things on which we do not vote. Freedom must be protected from democracy."

"Democracy doesn't favor the individual above all else, nor does it promise to. One of its greatest failings is that single voices of reason are too easily drowned out by the cacophony of the masses."

"A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant, and respectful."
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Readers of this book, it is your duty to realize that YOU have strength! If you believe in yourself, your comrades, and your country, YOU can make a difference!

If you are a true believer, you must understand that to bring about the Glorious Revolution, there can be no reluctance or hesitation.

Join with your comrades, know them, collude with them, make plans with them. For it is with your COMRADES you must have faith.

You must RISE UP, you must MARCH, you must RALLY, and you must bring about the REVOLUTION of your nation! The opposition to the Glorious Revolution will be stiff and brutal, and it may come to be that you must shed your blood for your country, your comrades, and the cause.

Do not be afraid, and do not ever feel worthless or without pride. YOU have the power to sunder apart the established order, YOU can help bring strength and reform to your country, with letters, speeches, votes, and revolution!

UNITE! FIGHT! FOR KHALITE! FOR STRENGTH AND PROGRESS! FOR THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION!