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

abused by the Soviet regime. But his former assistants now admit, that he

knew “all too well” what was going on. The only problem is, that those assis-

tants still talk about it only on the sly. They work at the Moscow institutes

where the scientific successors of Snezhnevsky are still in charge. This clique

of about thirty or forty psychiatrists at the time controlled all the important

institutes for scientific research in Moscow and this is practically the same up

to now. The consequence of Snezhnevsky’s ideas, apart from the fact that

they were used as a means of repression, is that psychiatry in the former

Soviet Union “is confronted with a gap of about fifty years”. Western litera-

ture on psychiatry was forbidden in the Soviet Union, psychiatrists who stood

up against the political abuse of their science ended up behind bars or were

themselves declared to be “insidiously schizophrenic” . “A Mess in Psychia-

try”, an interview with Robert van Voren, General Secretary of Geneva Ini-

tiative on Psychiatry, published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on

August 9, 1997 [Editor’s note.]

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This accumulation of proper knowledge would, within a

very short time, enable the undertaking of investigations whose

meaning we already understand. Missing elements and insuffi-

ciently investigated questions would be complemented and

deepened by means of the appropriate detailed research. The

diagnosis of the pathocratic state of affairs would then be

elaborated within the first dozen or so years of the formation of

the pathocracy, especially if the latter is imposed. The basis of

the deductive rationale would be significantly wider than any-

thing the author can present here, and would be illustrated by

means of a rich body of analytical and statistical material.

Once transmitted to world opinion, such a diagnosis would

quickly become incorporated into it that opinion, forcing naive

political and propaganda doctrines out of societal conscious-

ness. It would reach the nations that were the objects of the

pathocratic empire’s expansionist intentions. This would render

the usefulness of any such propagandized ideology as a

pathocratic Trojan horse doubtful at best.

In spite of differences among them, other countries with

normal human systems would be united by characteristic soli-

darity in the defense of an understood danger, similar to the

solidarity linking normal people living under pathocratic rule.

This consciousness, popularized in the countries affected by

this phenomenon, would simultaneously reinforce psychologi-

cal resistance on the part of normal human societies and furnish

them with new measures of self defense.

Can any pathocratic empire risk permitting such a possibil-

ity?

In times when the above-mentioned disciplines are develop-

ing swiftly in many countries, the problem of preventing such a

psychiatric threat becomes a matter of “to be or not to be” for

pathocracy. Any possibility of such a situation emerging must

thus be staved off prophylactically and skillfully, both within

and without the empire. At the same time, the empire is able to

find effective preventive measures thanks to its consciousness

of being different as well as that specific psychological knowl-

edge of psychopaths with which we are already familiar, par-

tially reinforced by academic knowledge.

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Both inside and outside the boundaries of countries affected

by the above-mentioned phenomenon, a purposeful and con-

scious system of control, terror, and diversion is thus set to

work.

Any scientific papers published under such governments or

imported from abroad must be monitored to ascertain that they

do not contain any data which could be harmful to the pathoc-

racy. Specialists with superior talent become the objects of

blackmail and malicious control. This of course causes the

results to become inferior with reference to these areas of sci-

ence.

The entire operation must of course be managed in such a

way as to avoid attracting the attention of public opinion in

countries with normal human structures. The effects of such a

“bad break” could be too far-reaching. This explains why peo-

ple caught doing investigative work in this area are destroyed

without a sound and suspicious persons are forced abroad to

become the objects of appropriately organized harassment

campaigns there.112

Battles are thus being fought on secret fronts which may be

reminiscent of the Second World War. The soldiers and leaders

fighting in various theaters were not aware that their fate de-

pended on the outcome of that other war, waged by scientists

and other soldiers, whose goal was preventing the Germans

from producing the atom bomb. The Allies won that battle, and

the United States became the first to possess this lethal weapon.

For the present, however, the West keeps losing scientific and

political battles on this new secret front. Lone fighters are

looked upon as odd, denied assistance, or forced to work hard

for their bread. Meanwhile, the ideological Trojan horse keeps

invading new countries.

An examination of the methodology of such battles, both on

the internal and the external fronts, points to that specific

pathocratic knowledge so difficult to comprehend in the light

of the natural language of concepts. In order to be able to con-

trol people and those relatively non-popularized areas of sci-

112 This is also why !obaczewski was deprived of the data he had assembled

over so many years that would have supported the information presented in

this book. [Editor’s note.]

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ence, one must know, or be able to sense, what is going on and

which fragments of psychopathology are most dangerous. The

examiner of this methodology thus also becomes aware of the

boundaries and imperfections of this self-knowledge and prac-

tice, i.e. the other side’s weaknesses, errors, and gaffes, and

may manage to take advantage of them.

In nations with pathocratic systems, supervision over scien-

tific and cultural organizations is assigned to a special depart-

ment of especially trusted people, a “Nameless Office” com-

posed almost entirely of relatively intelligent persons who be-

tray characteristic psychopathic traits. These people must be

capable of completing their academic studies, albeit sometimes

by forcing examiners to issue generous evaluations. Their tal-

ents are usually inferior to those of average students, especially

regarding psychological science. In spite of that, they are re-

warded for their services by obtaining academic degrees and

positions and are allowed to represent their country’s scientific

community abroad. As especially trusted individuals, they are

allowed to not participate in local meetings of the party, and

even to avoid joining it entirely. In case of need, they might

then pass for non-party. In spite of that, these scientific and

cultural superintendents are well known to the society of nor-

mal people, who learn the art of differentiation rather quickly.

They are not always properly distinguished from agents of the

political police; although they consider themselves to be in a

better class than the latter, they must nevertheless cooperate

with them.

We often meet with such people abroad, in the countries of

normal people, where various foundations and institutes give

them scientific grants with the conviction that they are thereby

assisting the development of proper knowledge in countries

under “communist” governments. These benefactors do not

realize that they are rendering a disservice to such science and

to real scientists by allowing the supervisors to attain a certain

semi-authentic authority, and by allowing them to become

more familiar with whatever they shall later deem to be dan-

gerous.

After all, those people shall later have the power to permit

someone to take a doctorate, embark upon a scientific career,

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achieve academic tenure, and become promoted. Very medio-

cre scientists themselves, they attempt to knock down more

talented persons, governed both by self-interest and that typical

jealousy which characterizes a pathocrat’s attitude toward nor-

mal people. They will be the ones monitoring scientific papers

for their “proper ideology” and attempting to ensure that a

good specialist will be denied the scientific literature he

needs.113

Controls are exceptionally malicious and treacherous in the

psychological sciences in particular, for reasons now under-

standable to us. Written and unwritten lists are compiled for

subjects that may not be taught, and corresponding directives

are issued to appropriately distort other subjects. This list is so

vast in the area of psychology that nothing remains of this sci-

ence except a skeleton picked bare of anything that might be

subtle or penetrating.

A psychiatrist’s required curriculum contains neither the

minimal knowledge from the areas of general, developmental,

and clinical psychology, nor the basic skills in psychotherapy.

Due to such a state of affairs, the most mediocre or privileged

of physicians become a psychiatrist after a course of study

lasting only weeks. This opens the door of psychiatric careers

to individuals who are by nature inclined to serving the

pathocratic authority, and it has fateful repercussions upon the

level of the treatment. It later permits psychiatry to be abused

for purposes for which it should never be used.114

113 Based on many reports of the past 5 years, it seems that the United States

is well on its way to having a similar system. In fact, careful analysis indi-

cates that such a system has been in place for some time now. [Editor’s note.]

114 In Ukraine brain surgery is being performed on schizophrenics. “Ukraine

is confronted with a lack of money, which means no money to buy medi-

cines, so they look for alternative methods of treatment. Then there are psy-

chiatrists in Dnepropetrovsk who think: suppose we cut away a piece of

brain, then we can get rid of schizophrenia cheaply.’ Van Voren imagines

what they might think: ‘Maybe we’ll even get the Nobel prize! One can never

know!.’

“ ‘On the other hand’, he continues, ‘they know just as well that this kind of

operation is not really accepted. So these schizophrenics become supposedly

epileptic, since in extreme cases of epilepsy surgery might be performed.

Under this pretext they cut away pieces of brain.’ The Institute of Neurosur-

gery in Kiev goes even further: there, brain tissue of aborted embryos is

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Since they are undereducated, these psychologists then

prove helpless in the face of many human problems, especially

in cases where detailed knowledge is needed. Such knowledge

must then be acquired on one’s own, a feat not everyone is able

to manage.

Such behavior carries in its wake a good deal of damage

and human injustice in areas of life which have nothing what-

soever to do with politics. Unfortunately, however, such behav-

ior is necessary from the pathocrat’s point of view in order to

prevent these dangerous sciences from jeopardizing the exis-

tence of a system they consider the best of all possible worlds.

Specialists in the areas of psychology and psychopathology

would find an analysis of this system of prohibitions and rec-

ommendations to be highly interesting. This makes it possible

implanted in the brains of mentally disabled people. ‘They say they can cure

disabled people that way. Of course nothing happens or their situation even

worsens, but they ask thousands of dollars for it.’

“In Ukrainian psychiatry insulin is being used as a tranquillizer, i.e. it is

administered in such doses, that the patient lapses into a coma. ‘A kill or cure

remedy. It is being applied in high doses, while diabetics are dying because

there is not enough insulin. Nonsense, absolute nonsense.’ He continues:

‘Electroshocks, on large scale.’ In the Central Psychiatric Institution in Kiev

they are given a dozen a time, without anaesthesia or muscle-relaxant drugs.

Once patients have been given a clean bill of health, they can get another

dozen of shocks on the day of departure: ‘something like a severance pay.

And all of this is happening now’, concludes Van Voren, ‘it is happening

today, at this very moment.’

“In Russian newspapers one can freely write about the political abuse of

psychiatry. But officially the doctrine of Snezhnevsky was never revoked.

Most psychiatrists in Moscow still even believe in it. ‘As a consequence, no

structural change is possible in Moscow. Even now people who hold a posi-

tion at one of those institutes and who want to talk in public about the abuse

of psychiatry are being told that they should better shut up or find themselves

a job elsewhere. This way much of the old power is maintained.’

“Under the pretext of ‘progressing schizophrenia’ dissidentss are still being

locked up in the former Soviet Union, but mainly in the provinces and it is

not so ‘easy’ to do anymore, says Van Voren.

People who are unwelcome to the local authorities might land in an institu-

tion, but nowadays there are organisations for human rights and media who

can get them out. In Turkmenistan it still happens officially. ‘That is a mu-

seum of the old Stalinist Soviet Union and there the theory has been re-