Andrew Lobaczewski - Political Ponerology - A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

psychological deficiencies of their own: diversiform deviations,

whether inherited or acquired, as well as by many people bear-

ing personality malformations or who have been injured by

social injustice. That explains why this scope is wider than the

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circle drawn by direct action of pathological factors. Pathologi-

cal acceptance of schizoidal writings or declarations by other

deviants often brutalizes the authors’ concepts and promotes

ideas of force and revolutionary means.

The passage of time and bitter experience has unfortunately

not prevented this characteristic misunderstanding born of

schizoid nineteenth-century creativity, with Marx’s works at

the fore, from affecting people and depriving them of their

common sense.

If only for purposes of the above-mentioned psychological

experiment, it is good practice for developing awareness of this

pathological factor by searching the works of K. Marx for sev-

eral statements with these characteristic deficits. When such a

study is conducted by several people with varied world views,

the experiment will show how a clear picture of reality can be

restored, and it becomes easier to find a common language.

Schizoidia has thus played an essential role as one of the

factors in the genesis of the evil threatening our contemporary

world. Practicing psychotherapy upon the world will therefore

demand that the results of such evil be eliminated as skillfully

as possible.

The first researchers – the author and his colleagues - at-

tracted by the idea of objectively understanding this phenome-

non initially failed to perceive the role of characteropathic

personalities in the genesis of pathocracy. However, when we

attempted to reconstruct the early phase of said genesis, we had

to acknowledge that characteropaths played a significant role in

this process.

We already know from the preceding chapter how their de-

fective experiential and thought patterns take hold in human

minds, insidiously destroying their way of reasoning and their

ability to utilize their healthy common sense. This role has also

proved essential because their activities as fanatical leaders or

spellbinders in various ideologies open the door to psycho-

pathic individuals and the view of the world they want to im-

pose.

In the ponerogenic process of the pathocratic phenomenon,

characteropathic individuals adopt ideologies created by doc-

trinaire, often schizoidal people, recast them into an active

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propaganda form, and disseminate it with their characteristic

pathological egotism and paranoid intolerance for any philoso-

phies which may differ from their own. They also inspire fur-

ther transformation of this ideology into its pathological coun-

terpart . Something which had a doctrinaire character and circu-

lated in numerically limited groups is now activated at societal

level, thanks to their spellbinding abilities.

It also appears that this process tends to intensify with time;

initial activities are undertaken by persons with milder charac-

teropathic features, who are easily able to hide their aberrations

from others. Paranoid individuals then become principally ac-

tive. Toward the end of the process, an individual with frontal

characteropathy and the highest degree of pathological egotism

can easily take over leadership.

As long as the characteropathic individuals play a dominant

role within a social movement affected by the ponerogenic

process, the ideology, whether doctrinaire from the outset or

later vulgarized and further perverted by these latter people,

continues to keep and maintain its content link with the original

prototype. The ideology continuously affects the movement’s

activities and remains an essential justifying motivation for

many. In this phase, therefore, such a union does not move in

the direction of criminal acts on a mass scale. To a certain ex-

tent, at this stage, one can still define such a movement or un-

ion by the name of its original ideology.

In the meantime, however, the carriers of other (mainly he-

reditary) pathological factors become engaged in this already

sick social movement and proceed with the work of final trans-

formation of the contents – both ideological and human - of

such a union in such a way that it becomes a pathological cari-

cature of its original ideology. This is effected under the ever-

growing influence of psychopathic personalities of various

types, with particular emphasis on the inspiration role of essen-

tial psychopathy.

Such a situation eventually engenders a wholesale show-

down: the adherents of the original ideology are shunted aside

or terminated. (This group includes many characteropaths,

especially of the lesser and paranoidal varieties.) The ideologi-

cal motivations and the double talk they created then are util-

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ized to hide the actual new contents of the phenomenon. From

this time on, using the ideological name of the movement in

order to understand its essence becomes a keystone of mis-

takes.

Psychopathic individuals generally stay away from social

organizations characterized by reason and ethical discipline.

After all, such organizations are created by that other world of

normal people so foreign to them. They hold various social

ideologies in contempt, while, at the same time, easily discern-

ing all their actual failings. However, once the process of pon-

eric transformation of some human union into its yet undefined

cartoon counterpart has begun and advanced sufficiently, they

perceive this fact with almost infallible sensitivity: a circle has

been created wherein they can hide their failings and psycho-

logical differentness, find their own modus vivendi , and maybe

even realize their youthful Utopian dream of a world where

they are in power and all those other, “normal people”, are

forced into servitude. They then begin infiltrating the rank and

file of such a movement; pretending to be sincere adherents

poses no difficulty for the psychopath, since it is second nature

for them to play a role and hide behind the mask of normal

people.

The psychopaths’ interest in such movements is not an ex-

clusive result of their egoism and lack of moral scruples. These

people have in fact been hurt by nature and society.93 An ideol-

93 It is important to note here that it is not meant that the psychopath has been

“emotionally” hurt, or that such “hurt” has contributed to their state of being.

Rather, as the author explained to me in private correspondence: “For them

you are their worst enemy. You are hurting them very painfully. For a psy-

chopath, revealing his real condition, tearing down his Cleckley mask, brings

the end of his self-admiration. You are threatening them with destruction of

their secret world, and bring to null their dreams of ruling and introducing [a

social system where they can rule and be served]. When his real condition is

publicly revealed, a psychopath feels like a wounded animal.

“You are partly right in finding some similarity of the essential psychopath

with the thought [processes] of a crocodile. They are somewhat mechanical.

But, are they guilty that they have inherited an abnormal gene, and that their