DS 17 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 17–NARROWING THE TARGET 

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NARROWING THE TARGET

When you look at a broad field or area it is quite overwhelming to have to find a small sector that might be out. The way to observe so as to find out what to observe is by discarding areas. The common denominator that is true for all life forms is that they are attempting to survive. If you discard all areas of wisdom or knowledge which have not much assisted Man to survive, you are left with scientific methodology. So, we use that for investigatory procedure. 

Then, working with that we find the presence of lasting mental impressions in our minds. And working with them we find that the human spirit is different from such impressions. By following up the workable, one arrives at the actions which, when applied, result in the increase of ability and freedom. By following up the causes of destruction one arrives at the points which have to be eradicated.

So, to discover anything bad or good, all one has to do is discard sterile areas to get a target necessary for investigation. One looks broadly at the whole scene. Then discards sections of it that would seem unrewarding. He will then find himself left with the area that contains the key to it. Plus-points or out-points alike take one along a sequence of discoveries. 

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DRAWN ATTENTION

When a man is not predicting he is often subjected to out-points that leap up at him. Conversely when out-points leap up at one unexpectedly he knows he better do more than gape at them. He is already behindhand in investigating. Other signs earlier existed which were disregarded.

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ERRORS

The usual error in viewing situations is not to view them widely enough to begin with. By keeping one’s attention narrowly on a single outpoint can miss the whole scene. There is no WHY.

The cycle of “Out-point, Correct, Out-point, Correct, Out-point, Correct” will drown one rapidly and improve nothing! But it sure makes a lot of useless work and worry. 

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WISDOM 

Wisdom is not a fixed idea. It is knowing how to use your wits. 

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DS 16 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 16—INVESTIGATORY PROCEDURE

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INVESTIGATORY PROCEDURE

Correction of things which are not wrong and neglecting things which are not right puts the tombstone on any organization or civilization. This boils down to CORRECT INVESTIGATION. It is not a slight skill. It is THE basic skill behind any intelligent action. 

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SUPPRESSIVE JUSTICE

When justice goes astray the things that have occurred are 

  1. Use of justice for some other purpose than public safety (such as maintaining a privileged group or indulging a fixed idea) or
  2. Investigatory Procedure. 

All suppressive use of the forces of justice can be traced back to one or the other of these. It is one thing to be able to observe. It is quite another to utilize observations so that one can get to the basis of things. 

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SEQUENCES 

Investigations become necessary in the face of out-points or plus-points. Whatever the motive for investigation the action itself is conducted by sequences. If one is incapable mentally of tracing a series of events or actions, one cannot investigate.

Altered sequence is a primary block to investigation. Any time an investigation gets back to front, it will not succeed. For example, “We will assume who did it and then find evidence to prove it.” Or, “A crime should be provoked to find who commits them.” 

Thus, if an investigator himself has any trouble with seeing or visualizing sequences of actions he will inevitably come up with the wrong answer. Stuck attention or attention that cannot confront alike will have trouble in visualizing sequences. 

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INVESTIGATIONS

Any investigation follows a sequence of actions. It is not monopolized by law and order. All betterment of life depends on finding out plus-points and why and reenforcing them, locating out-points, and why and eradicating them. 

This is the successful survival pattern of living. A primitive who is going to survive does just that and a scientist who is worth anything does just that. 

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DISCOVERY 

All discoveries are the end product of a sequence of investigatory actions that begin with either a plus-point or an out-point. 

Thus all knowledge proceeds from plus-points or out-points observed. And all knowledge depends on an ability to investigate. And all investigation is done in correct sequence. And all successes depend upon the ability to do these things. 

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DS 15 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 15—WRONG TARGET

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WRONG TARGET

There is an additional specific out-point of WRONG TARGET. This means in effect 

AN INCORRECT SELECTION OF AN OBJECTIVE TO ATTEMPT OR ATTACK. 

This out-point contains the element, amongst other things of injustice. 

Example: The Multi-billion dollar drug cartels push out 65 tons of habit forming hard drugs. A government campaigns against cigarettes. 

It is noted that the very insane often attack anyone who seeks to help them. 

This out-point is very fundamental as an illogic and is very useful. 

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DS 14 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 14—WORKING AND MANAGING

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WORKING AND MANAGING

By actual experience, the most dangerous worker-manager thing to do is to work or manage from something else than statistics. Man’s largest and most unjust fault consists wholly of acting on opinion. When one says “opinion” one is dealing with that morass of false reports and prejudices which make up the chaos of current social orders. 

Thus this whole field of “opinion” and “reports” is a quicksand endangering both personal repute and management skill. 

In a chaos it is necessary to set up one point or terminal which is stable before one can really decide anything much less get anything done. 

A statistic is such a stable point. One can proceed from it and use it to the degree that it is a correct statistic. One can detect then, when things start to go wrong well before they crash. 

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PREDICTION

The whole reason one does a Data Analysis and a Situation Analysis is to predict. 

The biggest out-point would be a missing Ideal Scene, the next biggest would be a correct statistic for it. If these are missing then prediction can become a matter of telling fortunes with bamboo sticks. 

One predicts in order to continue the viability of an organism, an individual, a group, an organization, a state or nation or planet, or to estimate the future of anything. 

The closer one approaches a disaster the more out-points will turn up. Thus the more out-points that turn up the closer one is approaching a disaster. By being able to predict, the organism or individual or group can correct the out-points before disaster occurs.

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DS 13 Summary

Reference: Data Series

Reference: Data Series 13—IRRATIONALITY

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IRRATIONALITY

Any and all irrationality is connected to departures from an Ideal Scene. Therefore out-points indicate departures. It must follow then that Rationality is connected to an Ideal Scene. These three assumptions should be studied, observed and fully grasped.

If these assumptions are true then one has not only the definition of sanity in an organization or individual but also of neurosis and psychosis. One also sees that any Third Dynamic activity can be neurotic or psychotic. It therefore would follow that the technology of the Ideal Scene, Existing Scene, departures, out-points and statistics would have the means of establishing sane groups or individuals or measuring and re-establishing relative sanity in them. 

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THE PLAGUE OF MAN

The irrationality in individual and group conduct is accepted as “inevitable” by most people. They toss off such irrationality with a “that’s life”. This is because the departure from any ideal is so distant as to obscure any feeling of reality about possibly achieving an Ideal Scene even in a limited area. This is of course an overwhelmed attitude. 

Man’s primary plague is irrationality. He is not in the grip of a “death wish”, nor is he having a love affair with destruction. He has just lacked any road out or the technology to put him on it. 

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RESOLVING THE SCENE

By the steps mentioned in the Data Series, big situations can be analyzed as well as little ones. The thing to do in all cases is to work out the Ideal Scene, survey the existing scene for out-points, work out statistics that should exist, find out WHY the departure, program a gradient solution back to the ideal, settle the practical aspects of it and go about it. 

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LOSING ONE’S WAY

One’s direction is lost to the degree one fails to work out the Ideal Scene. It is so easy to toss off an “ideal scene” that is not the Ideal Scene that one can begin with a false premise. Failures to examine the scene, reasonableness which causes blindness to the obvious, errors of penetration and defensive reasons not to admit it all impede a proper analysis. 

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BUILDING THE IDEAL SCENE 

To suppose one can instantly hit upon an Ideal Scene for any activity without further test is to be very fond of one’s own prejudices. There is however a test of whether you have the Ideal Scene or not. Can you staticize it? 

There seems to be a ratio between producing and consuming and it favors, apparently, higher production of something than consumption. When it gets too unbalanced in values, something seems to happen. An Ideal Scene apparently has to have a statistic or the whole thing caves in.

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IDEAL SCENE AND STAT

Whatever the facts and economic rules may be about production and the Ideal Scene, it would seem to be the case, sufficient at least for our purposes, that this rule holds good: 

THE CORRECTLY STATED IDEAL SCENE WILL HAVE A PRODUCTION STATISTIC. 

A stat is a positive numerical thing that can be accurately counted and graphed on a two dimensional thing. It is a tight reality, a stable point, which is to measure any departure from the Ideal Scene. 

One can go back and forth between the statistic and the stated Ideal Scene, adjusting one, then the other until one gets an attainable statistic that really does measure the validity of the stated Ideal Scene. 

[NOTE: Read the original for an excellent example of working out the Ideal Scene and Statistics for a shoe store.]

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VIABLE

The word “viable” means capable of living, able to live in a particular climate or atmosphere. This is true of any Ideal Scene. The Statistic measures directly the relative survival potential of the organism or its part. 

In practice one works back from the Ideal Scene of the group into its smallest part, so that all lesser Ideal Scenes and lesser statistics mount up to and bring about the main Ideal Scene and statistic. 

After that one can have better dependence upon them and keep the statistics up and the purpose going forward. 

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