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

POLITICAL

PONEROLOGY

Andrew M. !obaczewski

P O L I T I C A L

P O N E R O L O G Y

A science on the nature of evil

adjusted for political purposes

Translated from the original Polish

by Alexandra Chciuk-Celt, Ph. D.

Corrected by the author in 1998

Edited with Notes and Commentary by

Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Henri Sy

Red Pill Press

First Edition

First English publication

© Andrew M. !obaczewski

Preface, Notes and Commentary © Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Henri Sy

ISBN 1-897244-18-5

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a

retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic,

mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written prior

permission of the author.

Translated in 1985 from the original Polish Ponerologia Polityczna

by Alexandra Chciuk-Celt, Ph. D.

University of New York, N.Y.

Corrected by the author in 1998.

C O N T E N T S

EDITOR’S PREFACE .........................................................................7

AUTHOR’S FOREWORD ................................................................27

PREFACE TO THE RED PILL PRESS EDITION.....................30

I. INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................33

II. SOME INDISPENSABLE CONCEPTS ....................................45

PSYCHOLOGY .....................................................................................49

OBJECTIVE LANGUAGE ......................................................................51

THE HUMAN INDIVIDUAL ..................................................................57

SOCIETY .............................................................................................70

III. THE HYSTEROIDAL CYCLE.................................................84

IV. PONEROLOGY ...........................................................................96

PATHOLOGICAL FACTORS ...............................................................104

ACQUIRED DEVIATIONS ..................................................................105

INHERITED DEVIATIONS ..................................................................120

PONEROGENIC PHENOMENA AND PROCESSES ................................144

SPELLBINDERS .................................................................................155

PONEROGENIC ASSOCIATIONS ........................................................157

IDEOLOGIES......................................................................................164

THE PONERIZATION PROCESS .........................................................168

MACROSOCIAL PHENOMENA...........................................................173

STATES OF SOCIETAL HYSTERIZATION...........................................175

PONEROLOGY ...................................................................................178

V. PATHOCRACY ...........................................................................183

THE GENESIS OF THE PHENOMENON...............................................183

MORE ON THE CONTENTS OF THE PHENOMENON...........................194

PATHOCRACY AND ITS IDEOLOGY ..................................................200

THE EXPANSION OF THE PATHOCRACY ..........................................206

PATHOCRACY IMPOSED BY FORCE..................................................213

ARTIFICALLY INFECTED PATHOCRACY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL

WARFARE.........................................................................................216

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS ...........................................................221

VI. NORMAL PEOPLE UNDER PATHOCRATIC RULE.....230

FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TIME ...................................................235

UNDERSTANDING.............................................................................252

VII. PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY UNDER

PATHOCRATIC RULE ..................................................................255

VIII. PATHOCRACY AND RELIGION ......................................267

IX. THERAPY FOR THE WORLD ..............................................278

TRUTH IS A HEALER.........................................................................281

FORGIVENESS...................................................................................289

IDEOLOGIES......................................................................................296

IMMUNIZATION ................................................................................299

X. A VISION OF THE FUTURE ...................................................303

BIBLIOGRAPHY .............................................................................311

INDEX.................................................................................................317

EDITOR’S PREFACE

“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid

foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and

so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem in-

significant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as

high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see

all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening

near to you.”

Miyamoto Musashi

The book you hold in your hand may be the most important

book you will ever read; in fact, it will be. No matter who you

are, what your status in life, what your age or sex or nationality

or ethnic background, you will, at some point in your life, feel

the touch or relentless grip of the cold hand of Evil. Bad things

happen to good people, that’s a fact.

What is evil? Historically, the question of evil has been a

theological one. Generations of theological apologists have

written entire libraries of books in an attempt to certify the

existence of a Good God that created an imperfect world. Saint

Augustine distinguished between two forms of evil: “moral

evil”, the evil humans do, by choice, knowing that they are

doing wrong; and “natural evil”, the bad things that just happen

- the storm, the flood, volcanic eruptions, fatal disease.

And then, there is what Andrew !obaczewski calls Macro-

social Evil: large scale evil that overtakes whole societies and

nations, and has done so again and again since time immemo-

rial. The history of mankind, when considered objectively, is a

terrible thing.

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Death and destruction come to all, both rich and poor, free

and slave, young and old, good and evil, with an arbitrariness

and insouciance that, when contemplated even momentarily,

can destroy a normal person’s ability to function.

Over and over again, man has seen his fields and cattle laid

waste by drought and disease, his loved ones tormented and

decimated by illness or human cruelty, his life’s work reduced

to nothing in an instant by events over which he has no control

at all.

The study of history through its various disciplines offers a

view of mankind that is almost insupportable. The rapacious

movements of hungry tribes, invading and conquering and

destroying in the darkness of prehistory; the barbarian invaders

of the civilized world during medieval times, the bloodbaths of

the crusades of Catholic Europe against the infidels of the

Middle East and then the “infidels” who were their own broth-

ers: the stalking noonday terror of the Inquisition where mar-

tyrs quenched the flames with their blood. Then, there is the

raging holocaust of modern genocide; wars, famine, and pesti-

lence striding across the globe in hundred league boots; and

never more frightening than today.

All of these things produce an intolerable sense of indefen-

sibility against what Mircea Eliade calls the Terror of History.

There are those who will say that now this is all past; man-

kind has entered a new phase; science and technology have

brought us to the brink of ending all this suffering. Many peo-

ple believe that man is evolving; society is evolving; and that

we now have control over the arbitrary evil of our environ-

ment; or at least we will have it after George Bush and his

Neocons have about 25 years to fight the Endless War against

Terror. Anything that does not support this idea is reinterpreted

or ignored.

Science has given us many wonderful gifts: the space pro-

gram, laser, television, penicillin, sulfa-drugs, and a host of

other useful developments which should make our lives more

tolerable and fruitful. However, we can easily see that this is

not the case. It it could be said that never before has man been

so precariously poised on the brink of such total destruction.

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On a personal level, our lives are steadily deteriorating. The

air we breathe and the water we drink is polluted almost be-

yond endurance. Our foods are loaded with substances which

contribute very little to nourishment and may, in fact, be injuri-

ous to our health. Stress and tension have become an accepted

part of life and can be shown to have killed more people than

the cigarettes that some people still smoke to relieve it. We

swallow endless quantities of pills to wake up, go to sleep, get

the job done, calm our nerves and make us feel good. The in-

habitants of the earth spend more money on recreational drugs

than they spend on housing, clothing, food, education or any

other product or service.

At the social level, hatred, envy, greed and strife multiply

exponentially. Crime increases faster than the population.

Combined with wars, insurrections, and political purges, multi-

plied millions of people across the globe are without adequate

food or shelter due to political actions.

And then, of course, drought, famine, plague and natural

disasters still take an annual toll in lives and suffering. This,

too, seems to be increasing.

When man contemplates history, as it is, he is forced to re-

alize that he is in the iron grip of an existence that seems to

have no real care or concern for his pain and suffering. Over

and over again, the same sufferings fall upon mankind multi-

plied millions upon millions of times over millennia. The total-

ity of human suffering is a dreadful thing. I could write until

the end of the world using oceans of ink and forests of paper

and never fully convey this Terror. The beast of arbitrary ca-

lamity has always been with us. For as long as human hearts

have pumped hot blood through their too-fragile bodies and

glowed with the inexpressible sweetness of life and yearning

for all that is good and right and loving, the sneering, stalking,

drooling and scheming beast of unconscious evil has licked its

lips in anticipation of its next feast of terror and suffering.

Since the beginning of time, this mystery of the estate of man,

this Curse of Cain has existed. And, since the Ancient of Days,

the cry has been: My punishment is greater than I can bear!

It is conjectured that, in ancient times, when man perceived

this intolerable and incomprehensible condition in which he

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found his existence, that he created cosmogonies to justify all

the cruelties, aberrations, and tragedies of history. It is true

that, man, as a rule and in general, is powerless against cosmic

and geological catastrophes, and it has long been said that the

average man can’t really do anything about military onslaughts,

social injustice, personal and familial misfortunes, and a host of

assaults against his existence too numerous to list.

This is about to change. The book you hold in your hand is

going to give you answers to many of the questions about Evil

in our world. This book is not just about macrosocial evil, it is

also about everyday evil, because, in a very real sense, the two

are inseparable. The long term accumulation of everyday evil

always and inevitably leads to Grand Systemic Evil that de-

stroys more innocent people than any other phenomenon on

this planet.

The book you hold in your hands is also a survival guide.

As I said above, this book will be the most important book you

will ever read. Unless, of course, you are a psychopath.

“What does psychopathy have to do with personal or social

evil?” you may ask.

Absolutely everything. Whether you know it or not, each

and every day your life is touched by the effects of psychopa-

thy on our world. You are about to learn that even if there isn’t

much we can do about geological and cosmological catastro-

phe, there is a lot we can do about social and macrosocial evil,

and the very first thing to do is to learn about it. In the case of

psychopathy and its effects on our world, what you don’t know

definitely can and will hurt you.

Nowadays the word “psychopath” generally evokes images

of the barely restrained - yet surprisingly urbane - mad-dog

serial killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, of Silence of the Lambs fame.

I will admit that this was the image that came to my mind

whenever I heard the word; almost, that is. The big difference

was that I never thought of a psychopath as possibly being so

cultured or so capable of passing as “normal”. But I was

wrong, and I was to learn this lesson quite painfully by direct