Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something for History. How, meanwhile, was the U.S. to stay strong? This was a problem for extraordinary judgment, both in matters military and matters economic. Obviously, the nation's strategic air power must not be neglected. The error had not been the continued development of strategic air power, which might continue to forestall an Armageddon. The error lay in failing to maintain a balanced military force, which would also have meant balancing the consuming necessities of that military force with the civilian economy...
Modern man's analytical mind, says Hubbard, is a perfect computing machine, incapable of error except when it is supplied with wrong data. An example, typical of Hubbard's cases: a woman is struck by a man, and while she is unconscious he kicks and reviles her. A chair is overturned and a faucet has been left running. She does not "remember" these things because she is unconscious, but according to dianetics her reactive mind records them all in an engram. Later, the crash of an overturned chair and the sound of running water might make the engram...
...Trial & Error. In Pittsburgh, Daniel A. Marra admitted in court that he used to beat his wife, but gave it up "when I found out it was not doing any good...
...himself, and cannot live within himself. Love is the law of his existence. The community is as primordial as the individual. Both Nazi and Communist forms of collectivism are inevitable reactions to the individualism of the bourgeois age. They are just as much in error as the individualism; but hardly more...
...also quite wrong, says Niebuhr, to oversimplify Communism as the individual's subordination to the state. Theoretically, Communism is committed to the belief that the state will "wither away," once the evil institution of property is abolished. This illusion is the characteristic error of Communism. "Communism is so cruel and so fanatical because it has a completely erroneous conception of human nature. Living by the illusion that the abolition of a social institution will redeem man of all sin, it naturally feels justified in using any means which will attain this...