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Here we approach the nature of the block, or patterning of their minds – we state it now, though we did not begin to understand it until later. It is that they are able to hold in their minds at the same time several contradictory beliefs without noticing it. Which is why rational action is so hard for them. Now, the war-making function of each geographical area is not controlled by its inhabitants but is controlled by itself. Each is engaged in inventing, bringing to perfection – and keeping secret from its own inhabitants as well as from the ‘enemy’ – highly evolved war weapons of all sorts, ranging from devices for the manipulation of men’s minds to spacecraft.