Psychic destiny comprises government and institutions

The psychic destiny of a nation largely makes its government. A government which would care for its soldiers and the weak, which would make provision for those who have grown old in its service and would enforce laws for the safety of its people from foreign and internal enemies and educate its citizens not to do what they would not like to suffer, would be the kind of government that its people had desired and deserved.

Similar to religious fervour at revival meetings is political enthusiasm, the jingo love of one's own country and of one's particular social and economic instituitions, as a landed nobility, clerical hierachy, labor union or big business combinations. In political campaigns people become agitated about their party rather than about the interests of good government. Men will shout over issues they do not understand, and they will shiift in their arguments and accusations with little or no reason; and they will adhere to a party even though they know that its policy is wrong. Ignorance and selfishness permit the psychic nature to rule without restraint.

The most succesful party politicians are those who can best reach, agitate and control the psychic nature of the people through their appetites, weaknesses, selfishness, and prejudices. After all, these politicians are only means to exteriorize the thoughts of the people to the people. Bad government must continue while those who are governed are selfish, indifferent, and uniformed. Such a government is their psychic destiny. This must be so as long as the people remain blind to the fact that they get what they give, individually, or as a whole, and that what they give is an exterorization of their own thoughts. The desires of individuals and the collective desire of the people are what brings about these things.

The man who attemps to enforce the law is quite frequently downed. The statesman or politician reformer who offers amelioration of conditions is usually doomed to disappointment, because he is attempting to remodel forms and bring about these effects continue. Politics, instutions are what they are because they are the psychic destiny of individuals who are immortal, selfish, ignorant, and hypocritical.