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

collected a certain amount of practical knowledge about the

phenomenon and its psychology and learned to protect his own

personality. This experience, unceremoniously rejected by

“people who don’t understand anything”, becomes a psycho-

logical burden for him, forcing him to live within a narrow

circle of persons whose experiences have been similar. Such a

person should rather be treated as the bearer of valuable scien-

tific data; understanding would constitute at least partial

psychotherapy for him, and would simultaneously open the

door to a comprehension of reality.

I would here like to remind psychologists that these kinds of

experiences and their destructive effects upon the human per-

sonality are not unknown to scientific practice and experience.

We often meet with patients requiring appropriate assistance:

individuals raised under the influence of pathological, espe-

cially psychopathic, personalities who were forced with a

pathological egotism to accept an abnormal way of thinking.

Even an approximate determination of the type of pathological

factors which operated on him allow us to pinpoint psycho-

therapeutic measures. In practice we most frequently meet

cases wherein such a pathological situation operated on a pa-

tient’s personality in early childhood, as a result of which we

must utilize long term measures and work very carefully, using

various techniques, in order to help him develop his true per-

sonality.

Children under parental pathocratic rule are “protected” un-

til school age. Then they meet with decent, normal people who

attempt to limit the destructive influences as much as possible.

The most intense effects occur during adolescence and the

ensuing time frame of intellectual maturation which can occur

with the input of decent people. This rescues the society of

normal people from deeper deformations in personality devel-

opment and widespread neurosis. This period remains within

persistent memory and is thus amenable to insight, reflection,

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and disillusion. Such people’s psychotherapy would consist

almost exclusively of utilizing the correct knowledge of the

essence of the phenomenon.

Regardless of the social scale within which human indi-

viduals were forcibly reared by pathological persons, whether

individual, group, societal, or macrosocial, the principles of

psychotherapeutic action will thus be similar, and should be

based upon data known to us, and an understanding of the psy-

chological situation. Making a patient aware of the kind of

pathological factors which affected him, and jointly under-

standing the results of such effects, is basic to such therapy. We

do not utilize this method if, in an individual case, we have

indications that the patient has inherited this factor. However,

such limitations should not be consistent with regard to macro-

social phenomena affecting the welfare of entire nations.

From the Perspective of Time

If a person with a normal instinctive substratum and basic

intelligence has already heard and read about such a system of

ruthless autocratic rule “based on a fanatical ideology”, he feels

he has already formed an opinion on the subject. However,

direct confrontation with the phenomenon will inevitably pro-

duce in him the feeling of intellectual helplessness. All his

prior imaginings prove to be virtually useless; they explain next

to nothing. This provokes a nagging sensation that he and the

society in which he was educated were quite naive.

Anyone capable of accepting this bitter void with an aware-

ness of his own nescience, which would do a philosopher

proud, can also find an orientation path within this deviant

world. However, egotistically protecting his world view from

disintegrative disillusionment and attempting to combine them

with observations from this new divergent reality, only reaps

mental chaos. The latter has produced unnecessary conflicts

and disillusionment with the new rulership in some people;

others have subordinated themselves to the pathological reality.

One of the differences observed between a normally resistant

person and somebody who has undergone a transpersonifica-

tion is that the former is better able to survive this disintegrat-

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ing cognitive void, whereas the latter fills the void with the

pathologic propaganda material without sufficient controls.

When the human mind comes into contact with this new re-

ality so different from any experiences encountered by a person

raised in a society dominated by normal people, it releases

psychophysiological shock symptoms in the human brain with

a higher tonus of cortex inhibition and a stifling of feelings,

which then sometimes gush forth uncontrollably. The mind

then works more slowly and less keenly because the associative

mechanisms have become inefficient. Especially when a person

has direct contact with psychopathic representatives of the new

rule, who use their specific experience so as to traumatize the

minds of the “others” with their own personalities, his mind

succumbs to a state of short-term catatonia. Their humiliating

and arrogant techniques, brutal paramoralizations, and so forth

deaden his thought processes and his self-defense capabilities,

and their divergent experiential method anchors in his mind. In

the presence of this kind of phenomenon, any moralizing

evaluation of a person’s behavior in such a situation thus be-

comes inaccurate at best.

Only once these unbelievably unpleasant psychological

states have passed, thanks to rest in benevolent company, is it

possible to reflect, always a difficult and painful process, or to

become aware that one’s mind and common sense have been

fooled by something which cannot fit into the normal human

imagination .

Man and society stand at the beginning of a long road of

unknown experiences which, after much trial and error, finally

leads to a certain hermetic knowledge of what the qualities of

the phenomenon are and how best to build up psychological

resistance thereto. Especially during the dissimulative phase,

which makes it possible to adapt to life in this different world

and thus arrange more tolerable living conditions. We shall

then be able to observe psychological phenomena, knowledge,

immunization, and adaptation such as could not have been

predicted before and which cannot be understood in the world

remaining under the rule of normal man’s systems. A normal

person, however, can never completely adapt to a pathological

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system; it is easy to be pessimistic about the final results of

this.

Such experiences are exchanged during evening discussions

among a circle of friends, thereby creating within people’s

minds a kind of cognitive conglomeration which is initially

incoherent and contains factual deficiencies. The participation

of moral categories in such a comprehension of the macrosocial

phenomenon, and the manner in which particular individuals

behave, is proportionally much greater within such a new

world view than the above adduced scientific knowledge would

dictate. The ideology officially preached by the pathocracy

continues to retain its ever-diminishing suggestive powers until