Andrew Lobaczewski - Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
searching for the proper way to behave. Agriculture is depend-
ent upon changing climate conditions and the appearance of
pests and plant diseases. A farmer’s personal qualities have
thus been an essential factor of success in this area, as it was
for many centuries. Pathocracy therefore invariably brings
about food shortages.
However, many countries with normal man’s systems
abound in sufficiency of industrial products and experience
problems with their food surpluses and temporary economic
recessions even though the citizens are by no means over-
worked. The temptation to dominate such a country and its
prosperity, that perennial imperialist motive, thus becomes
even more strong in the pathocracy. The collected prosperity of
the conquered nation can be exploited for a time, the citizens
forced to work harder for paltry remuneration. For the moment,
no thought is given to the fact that introducing a pathocratic
system within such a country will eventually cause similar
unproductive conditions; after all psychological deviance, by
definition, indicates a lack of self-knowledge in this area. Un-
fortunately, the idea of conquering rich countries also moti-
vates the minds of many poor non-pathological fellows suffer-
ing under the pathocracy, but not understanding why, and who
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would like to use this opportunity to grab something for them-
selves and eat their fill of good food.
As has been the case for centuries, military power is of
course the primary means for achieving these ends. Throughout
the centuries, though, whenever history has registered the ap-
pearance of the phenomenon of pathocracy, (regardless of the
ideological cloak covering it), specific measures of influence
have also become apparent: something in the order of specific
intelligence in the service of international intrigue facilitating
conquest. This quality is derived from the above-discussed
personality characteristics inspiring the overall phenomenon; it
should constitute data for historians to identify this type of
phenomenon throughout history.
People exist everywhere in the world with specifically sus-
ceptible deviant personalities; even a faraway pathocracy
evokes a resonating response in them, working on their under-
lying feeling that “there is a place for people like us there”.
Uncritical, frustrated, and abused people also exist everywhere,
and they can be reached by appropriately elaborated propa-
ganda. The future of a nation is greatly dependent on how
many such people it contains. Thanks to its specific psycho-
logical knowledge and its conviction that normal people are
naive, a pathocracy is able to improve its “anti-
psychotherapeutic” techniques, and pathologically egotistical
as usual, to insinuate its deviant world of concepts to others in
other countries, thus making them susceptible to conquest and
domination.
The most frequently used methods include paralogistic and
conversion methods such as the projection of one’s own quali-
ties and intention onto other persons, social groups, or nations,
paramoral indignation, and reverse blocking. This last method
is a pathocratic favorite used on the mass scale, driving the
minds of average people into a dead end because, as a result, it
causes them to search for the truth in the “golden mean” be-
tween the reality and its opposite.101
101 This is being very effectively used at the present time under the guise of
“The War on Terror”, a completely manufactured device that utilizes “false
flag operations” to herd people into “support camps” for the U.S. imperialist
agenda. [Editor’s note.]
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We should thus point out that although various works in the
area of psychopathology contain descriptions of most of these
near-hypocritical methods, an overall summary filling the gaps
observed is absent and sorely needed. How much better it
would be if the people and governments of normal man’s coun-
tries could take advantage of such a work and behave like an
experienced psychologist, noting the reproaches heaped upon
them in the course of projection and turning around statements
whose character indicate reverse blocking. A bit of analytical
cosmetics would then produce a low-cost list of a pathocratic
empire’s intentions.102
Law has become the measure of right within the countries
of normal human systems. We often forget how imperfect a
creation of human minds it really is, how dependent it is on
formulations based upon data which legislators can understand.
In legal theory, we accept its regulatory nature as a given and
consequently agree that in certain cases its activities may not
be quite concurrent with human reality. Understood thus, the
law furnishes insufficient support for counteracting a phe-
nomenon whose character lies outside of the possibilities of the
legislators’ imagination. Quite the contrary: pathocracy knows
how to take advantage of the weaknesses of such a legalistic
manner of thinking.
However, this macrosocial phenomenon’s internal actions
and external expansion are based upon psychological data. As
such, regardless of how these data are deformed within the
pathocrats’ personalities, its cunning is vastly superior to nor-
mal people’s legal systems. This makes pathocracy the social
system of the future, albeit in the shape of a caricature.
Therefore, the future for normal man belongs to social sys-
tems which are based on an improved comprehension of man
in all his psychological variations; evolution in this direction
can, among other things, ensure greater resistance to the expan-
102 This is currently being done, and quite well, by alternative news sources
on the internet, bloggers, and many “ordinary” people who can easily see
what is going on. Unfortunately, to date, no ruling party in any significant
country with the power to stand against the pathocracy of the U.S. has man-
aged to think that far. [Editor’s note.]
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sionary methods this macrosocial phenomenon uses in its quest
to dominate the world.
Pathocracy Imposed by Force
The genesis of pathocracy in any country is so lengthy a
process that it is difficult to pinpoint when it began. If we take
into consideration those historical examples which should be
qualified in that regard, we will most frequently observe the
figure of an autocratic ruler whose mental mediocrity and in-
fantile personality finally opened the door to the ponerogenesis
of the phenomenon. Wherever a society’s common sense is
sufficiently influential, its self-preservation instinct is able to
overcome this ponerogenic process rather early. Things are
different when an active nucleus of this disease already exists
and can dominate by means of infection or the imposition of
force.
Whenever a nation experiences a “system crisis” or a hy-
peractivity of ponerogenic processes within, it becomes the
object of a pathocratic penetration whose purpose is to serve
up the country as booty. It will then become easy to take ad-
vantage of its internal weaknesses and revolutionary move-
ments in order to impose rule on the basis of a limited use of
force. Conditions such as a great war or a country’s temporary
weakness can sometimes cause it to submit to the violence of a
pathocratic neighbor country (against their will) whose system
did not exhibit such wide-scope infirmities earlier. After forci-
ble imposition of such a system the course of pathologization
of life becomes different; and such a pathocracy will be less
stable, its very existence dependent upon the factor of never-
ending outside force.
Let us now address the latter situation first: Brute force
must first stifle the resistance of an exhausted nation; people
possessing military or leadership skills must be disposed of,
and anyone appealing to moral values and legal principles must
be silenced. The new principles are never explicitly enunciated.
People must learn the new unwritten law via painful experi-
ence. The stultifying influence of this deviant world of con-
cepts finishes the job, and common sense demands caution and
endurance.
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This is followed by a shock which appears as tragic as it is
frightening. Some people from every social group, whether
abused paupers, aristocrats, officials, literati, students, scien-
tists, priests, atheists, or nobodies known to no one, suddenly
start changing their personality and world view. Decent Chris-
tians and patriots just yesterday, they now espouse the new
ideology and behave contemptuously to anyone still adhering
to the old values. Only later does it become evident that this
ostensibly avalanche-like process has its natural limits. With
time, the society becomes stratified based on factors entirely
different from the old political convictions and social links. We
already know the causes for this.
Through direct contact with the pathocracy, society simul-
taneously begins to sense that its true content is different from
the ideologies disseminated earlier, while the country was still
independent. This divergence is a traumatizing factor, because
it questions the value of accepted convictions. Years must pass
before the mind has adapted to the new concepts. When those
of us who have experienced this then travel to Western Europe,
or especially to the United States, people who still believe the
original ideologies, the mask that was presented by the pathoc-
racy, strike us as being silly.
Pathocracy imposed by force arrives in a finished form, we
could even call it ripe. People observing it close up were un-
able to distinguish the earlier phases of its development, when
the schizoidals and characteropaths were in charge. The need
for the existence of these phases and their character had to be
reconstructed in this work on the basis of historical data.
In an imposed system, psychopathic material is already
dominant; it was perceived as something contrary to human
nature, virtually bereft of the mask of ideology rendered ever
less necessary in a conquered country, but nevertheless still
masked by its incomprehensibility to people who are still trying
to think in the categories of a natural world view.
We at first perceived the old system of categories and un-
derstanding as painfully inadequate for purposes of compre-
hending the reality which had overwhelmed us. The essential
objective categories we needed to classify what we observed
would not be created until many years of effort had passed.
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Individuals with deviant characteristics, scattered throughout
society, however, unerringly sensed that the time had come for
their dreams to come true, the time to exact revenge upon those
“others” who had abused and humiliated them before. This
violent formative process of pathocracy lasted barely eight
years or so, thereupon making a similarly escalated transforma-
tion into the dissimulative phase.
The system functions, psychological mechanisms, and mys-
terious causative links in a country upon which a quasi-political
structure was imposed are basically analogous to those of the
country which gave rise to the phenomenon. The system
spreads downward until it reaches every village and every hu-
man individual. The actual contents and internal causes of this
phenomenon also manifest no essential difference, regardless
of whether we make our observation in the capital or in some
outlying small town. If the entire organism is sick, diagnostic
biopsy tissue can be collected wherever this can be performed
most expediently. Those who live in countries with normal
human systems attempting to understand this other system by
means of their imagination, or by penetrating the walls of the
Kremlin where it is assumed that the intentions of the highest
authorities are concealed, do not realize that this is a very oner-
ous method to do something that can be done more efficiently.
In order to perceive the essence of the phenomenon, we can
more easily situate ourselves in a small town, where it is much
easier to peek backstage and analyze the nature of such a sys-
tem.
However, some of the differences in the nature of the
pathocratic phenomenon between the originating country and
the country on which it is forcibly imposed turn out to be per-
manent. The system will always strike the society that has been
taken over as something foreign associated with the other coun-
try. The society’s historical tradition and culture constitute a
connection to those strivings aimed in the direction of normal
man’s structures. The more mature cultural formations in par-
ticular prove the most highly resistant to the system’s destruc-
tive activities. The subjugated nation finds support and inspira-
tion for its psychological and moral resistance in its own cul-
tural, religious, and moral traditions. These values, elaborated
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through centuries, cannot easily be destroyed or co-opted by
