Andrew Lobaczewski - Political Ponerology - A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
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caused by unlike phases of said cycles, inter alia , will overflow
all boundaries and information security systems. This will give
rise to pressures which can change the causative dependencies
herein. A more plastic psychological situation thus emerges,
which increases the possibilities for pinpointed action based on
an understanding of the phenomena.
At the same time, in spite of many difficulties of a scien-
tific, social and political nature, we see the development of a
new community of factors which may eventually contribute to
the liberation of mankind from the effects of uncomprehended
historical causation. The development of science, whose final
goal is a better understanding of man and the laws of social
life, could, in the long run, cause public opinion to accept the
essential knowledge about human nature and the development
of the human personality, which will enable the harmful proc-
esses to be controlled. Some forms of international cooperation
and supervision will be needed for this.
The development of human personality and its capacity for
proper thinking and accurate comprehension of reality entails a
certain amount of risk and demands overcoming comfortable
laziness and applying the efforts of special scientific work un-
der conditions quite different from those under which we have
been raised.
Under such conditions, an egotistic personality, accustomed
to a comfortably narrow environment, superficial thinking, and
uncontrolled emotionalism, will experience very favorable
changes, which cannot be induced by anything else. Specially
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altered conditions will cause such a personality to begin disin-
tegrating, thus giving rise to intellectual and cognitive efforts
and moral reflection.
One example of such a program of experience is the Ameri-
can Peace Corps. Young people travel to many poor develop-
ing countries in order to live and work there, often under primi-
tive conditions. They learn to understand other nations and
customs, and their egotism decreases. Their world view devel-
ops and becomes more realistic. They thus lose the characteris-
tic defects of the modern American character.
In order to overcome something whose origin is shrouded in
the mists of time immemorial, we often feel we must battle the
ever-turning windmills of history. However, the end goal of
such effort is the possibility that an objective understanding of
human nature and its eternal weaknesses, plus the resulting
transformation of societal psychology, may enable us effec-
tively to counteract or prevent the destructive and tragic results
sometime in the not too distant future.
Our times are exceptional, and suffering now gives rise to
better comprehension than it did centuries ago. This under-
standing and knowledge fit better into the total picture, since
they are based on objective data. Such a view therefore be-
comes realistic, and people and problems mature in action.
Such action should not be limited to theoretical contemplations,
but rather, acquire organization and form.
In order to facilitate this, let us consider the selected ques-
tions and the draft of a new scientific discipline which would
study evil, discovering its factors of genesis, insufficiently
understood properties, and weak spots, thereby outlining new
possibilities to counteract the origin of human suffering.
CHAPTER V
PATHOCRACY
The Genesis of the Phenomenon
The time-cycle sketched in Chapter III was referred to as
hysteroidal because the intensification or diminution of a soci-
ety’s hysterical condition can be considered its chief measure-
ment. It does not, of course, constitute the only quality subject
to change within the framework of certain periodicity. The
present chapter shall deal with the phenomenon which can
emerge from the phase of maximal intensification of hysteria.
Such a sequence does not appear to result from any relatively
constant laws of history; quite the contrary, some additional
circumstances and factors must participate in such a period of a
society’s general spiritual crisis and cause its reason and social
structure to degenerate in such a way as to bring about the
spontaneous generation of this worst disease of society. Let us
call this societal disease phenomenon “pathocracy”; this is not
the first time it has emerged during the history of our planet.
It appears that this phenomenon, whose causes also appear
to be potentially present in every society, has its own character-
istic process of genesis, only partially conditioned by, and hid-
den within, the maximal hysterical intensity of the above-
described cycle. As a result, unhappy times become exception-
ally cruel and enduring and their causes impossible to under-
stand within the categories of natural human concepts. Let us
therefore bring this process of the origin of pathocracy closer,
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PATHOCRACY
methodically isolating it from other phenomena we can recog-
nize as being conditional or even accompanying it.
A psychologically normal, highly intelligent person called
to high office normally experiences doubts as to whether he
can meet the demands expected of him and seeks the assistance
of others whose opinions he values. At the same time, he feels
nostalgia for his old life, freer and less burdensome, to which
he would like to return after fulfilling his social obligations.
Every society worldwide contains individuals whose dreams
of power arise very early as we have already discussed. They
are generally discriminated against in some way by society,
which uses a moralizing interpretation with regard to their fail-
ings and difficulties, although these individuals are rarely
guilty of them in the precise terms of morality. They would like
to change this unfriendly world into something else. Dreams of
power also represent overcompensation for the feeling of hu-
miliation, the second angle in Adler’s rhombus.89 A significant
and active proportion of this group is composed of individuals
with various deviations who imagine this better world in their
own way, of which we are already familiar.
In the prior chapter, the readers have become acquainted
with examples of these deviations selected in such a way as to
permit us now to present the ponerogenesis of pathocracy and
to introduce the essential factors of this historical phenomenon
which is so difficult to understand. It has certainly appeared
many times in history, in various countries and in various so-
cial scales. However, no one has ever managed to identify it
objectively because it would hide in one of the ideologies char-
acteristic of the respective culture and era, developing in the
89 Austrian psychiatrist who rejected Sigmund Freud’s emphasis on sexuality
and theorized that neurotic behavior is an overcompensation for feelings of
inferiority. He argued that human personality could be explained teleologi-
cally, separate strands dominated by the guiding purpose of the individual’s
unconscious self ideal to convert feelings of inferiority to superiority (or
rather completeness). The desires of the self ideal were countered by social
and ethical demands. If the corrective factors were disregarded and the indi-
vidual over-compensated, then an inferiority complex would occur, the indi-
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