Political Ponerology: A Psychological Anatomy of Evil, Politics and Public Trauma

Source: Winter Watch

May 17, 2019 | By Russ Winter

"The biological, psychological, moral and economic destruction of the majority of normal people becomes, for the pathocrats, a biological necessity." — Dr. Andrew Łobaczewski (1921 – 2008) 

Political psychologist Dr. Andrew M. Lobaczewski wrote a masterpiece on psychopathy and pathocracy, which he melded into the term "political ponerology." He describes political ponerology as science of the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes. We have used the terms “kakistocracy” and “Crime Syndicate” to express the same essential concept. 

A more concise and abridged look at this work comes from commentary and additional quoted material by Laura Knight-Jadczyk, who cuts through some of the denseness in Lobaczewski’s book. She also pulls in the work of other researchers on the topic. I have extracted key takeaways and points, and the in-depth and highly recommended write up can be read here in two parts.

How to Understand Macrosocial Evil

Derived from poneros in New Testament Greek, the word ponerology suggests an inborn evil with a corrupting influence, a fitting description of psychopathy and its social effects.

Kazimierz Dąbrowski (1902-1980) indicated that extreme ambition and lust for power and financial gain "is particularly evident in criminal or political psychopathy." Politics by its very nature, would tend to attract more of the pathological "dominator types" than other fields. The MO is to infiltrate, contaminate, appropriate, and eliminate. (ICAE)

But little has been said about the nature, causes and genesis of evil. Materialist scientific culture does not readily admit that evil actually exists, per se. Yes, "evil" plays a part in religious discourse; but even there, it's given short shrift as an "error" or a "rebellion" that will be corrected at some point in the future.

We almost never think that “they” might be fighting simply to get something, have their way or gain the upper hand. This is the false Hanlon's Razor that Winter Watch alludes to. The razor holds: "Never attribute to malice, what can be explained by incompetence." Complete nonsense.

The legacy of Sigmund Freud's work has a lot to do with it. The basic tenets of Freudian theories and their core construct — neuroses — have become fairly well etched in public consciousness. Psychodynamic theories of personality tend to view everyone, at least to some degree, as neurotic. The malignant impact of Freud's exaggerated observations about a small groups of overly inhibited individuals applied to a broad set of assumptions about the causes of psychological ill-health in everyone cannot be overstated. It provides cover for the pathocrats/ kakistocrats to hide behind.

Read "Sigmund Fraud: The Father of Modern Psychoanalysis and Neurotic Charlatan"

Lobaczewski states, "Mankind has a natural predator, the psychopath, and this predator is invisible because there are no easily discernible markings that set him apart. In a society where evil is not studied or understood, they easily "rise to the top" and proceed to condition normal people to accept their dominance, to accept their lies without question. The trick of the psychopath’s trade is to make us believe that evil comes from others.

Since everyone simply assumes that conscience is universal among human beings, hiding the fact that they are conscience-free is nearly effortless. They are not held back from any desires by guilt or shame, and are never confronted by others for cold-bloodedness. The ice water in their veins is so bizarre, so completely outside of the normal person's personal experience, that they seldom even guess at this condition.

In other words, completely free of internal restraints, with unhampered liberty to do just as they please, and with no pangs of conscience, makes them conveniently invisible to the world.

This invisibility gives them huge, secret and strange (form of black magik) advantage over the majority of people, who are kept in line and are handicapped by their consciences and are unaware that not all people operate from a place of personal integrity.

In fact, it's even worse. Robert Hare in "Without Conscience" argued that we live in a "camouflage society," a society in which some psychopathic traits — egocentricity, lack of concern for others, superficiality, style over substance, being "cool," manipulativeness, and so forth — increasingly are tolerated (moral relativism) and even valued. Egocentric, cold-blooded and remorseless psychopaths can then dominate all aspects of society.

Please go to Winter Watch to read more on how political ponerology runs the shit house. 

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