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Ponerology- The study of Evil (Psychopaths in the world!)

http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/polit...obaczewski.htm


Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for
Political Purposes
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Ph.D.
with commentary and additional quoted material
by Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Andrew M. Lobczewski's book will be available from Red Pill Press in
the Spring of 2006.

This article is a two-parter. I should notify the reader that the
really good stuff is in the second part, so don't skip it!

Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Nov. 2005

Pathocracy is a disease of great social movements followed by entire
societies, nations, and empires. In the course of human history, it has
affected social, political, and religious movements as well as the
accompanying ideologies... and turned them into caricatures of
themselves.... This occurred as a result of the ... participation of
pathological agents in a pathodynamically similar process. That
explains why all the pathocracies of the world are, and have been, so
similar in their essential properties.

....Identifying these phenomena through history and properly qualifying
them according to their true nature and contents - not according to the
ideology in question, which succumbed to the process of
caricaturization - is a job for historians. [...]
The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the
leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The
pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country
creating a "new class" within that nation. This privileged class
[of pathocrats] feels permanently threatened by the "others", i.e.
by the majority of normal people. Neither do the pathocrats entertain
any illusions about their personal fate should there be a return to the
system of normal man. [Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Ph.D. (psychology);
Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for
political purposes]

The word "psychopath" generally evokes images of the barely
restrained - yet surprisingly urbane - Dr. Hannibal Lecter of
"Silence of the Lambs" fame. I will admit that this was the image
that came to my mind whenever I heard the word. But I was wrong, and I
was to learn this lesson quite painfully by direct experience. The
exact details are chronicled elsewhere; what is important is that this
experience was probably one of the most painful and instructive
episodes of my life and it enabled me to overcome a block in my
awareness of the world around me and those who inhabit it.

Regarding blocks to awareness, I need to state for the record that I
have spent 30 years studying psychology, history, culture, religion,
myth and the so-called paranormal. I also have worked for many years
with hypnotherapy - which gave me a very good mechanical knowledge of
how the mind/brain of the human being operates at very deep levels. But
even so, I was still operating with certain beliefs firmly in place
that were shattered by my research into psychopathy. I realized that
there was a certain set of ideas that I held about human beings that
were sacrosanct. I even wrote about this once in the following way:

...my work has shown me that the vast majority of people want
to do good, to experience good things, think good thoughts, and make
decisions with good results. And they try with all their might to do
so! With the majority of people having this internal desire, why the
Hell isn't it happening?

I was naïve, I admit. There were many things I did not know that I
have learned since I penned those words. But even at that time I was
aware of how our own minds can be used to deceive us.

Now, what beliefs did I hold that made me a victim of a psychopath? The
first and most obvious one is that I truly believed that deep inside,
all people are basically "good" and that they "want to do good,
to experience good things, think good thoughts, and make decisions with
good results. And they try with all their might to do so..."

As it happens, this is not true as I - and everyone involved in our
working group - learned to our sorrow, as they say. But we also learned
to our edification. In order to come to some understanding of exactly
what kind of human being could do the things that were done to me (and
others close to me), and why they might be motivated - even driven - to
behave this way, we began to research the psychology literature for
clues because we needed to understand for our own peace of mind.

If there is a psychological theory that can explain vicious and harmful
behavior, it helps very much for the victim of such acts to have this
information so that they do not have to spend all their time feeling
hurt or angry. And certainly, if there is a psychological theory that
helps a person to find what kind of words or deeds can bridge the chasm
between people, to heal misunderstandings, that is also a worthy goal.
It was from such a perspective that we began our extensive work on the
subjects of narcissism which then led to the study of psychopathy.

Of course, we didn't start out with such a "diagnosis" or label
for what we were witnessing. We started out with observations and
searched the literature for clues, for profiles, for anything that
would help us to understand the inner world of a human being - actually
a group of human beings - who seemed to be utterly depraved and unlike
anything we had ever encountered before.

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