The compulsion mentioned can be reevaluated in terms of the survival dynamic. That is interior in the organism and the race. And what is “necessary” to survival?

There are two factors at work. The necessity of avoiding pain is a factor because degree by degree, little things, not much in themselves, can amount to large pains which, compounded in that rapid geometric progression, bring on death. Pain is the sadness of being bawled out for poor work, because that may lead to being fired, which may lead to starvation, which may lead to death. Run any equation into which pain has entered and it can be seen that it reduces down to possible nonsurvival. And if this were all there were to surviving and if necessity were a vicious little gnome with a pitchfork, it seems rather obvious that there would be scant reason to go on living. But there is the other part of the equation: pleasure. That is a more stable part than pain, Stoics to the contrary, as clinical tests in Dianetics prove. (Stoics belonged to an ancient Greek philosophy that believed people should be free from passion and calmly accept everything that happened as the unavoidable result of divine will. And Dianetics, by the way, comes from the Greek dia, meaning “through” and nous, meaning “soul.” It is most accurately described as “what the soul is doing to the body, through the mind.”)

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