The leaders who control the 'system' they inherited will morph it to suit their pathology. That means the system they dominate is designed to enable those who are of the same mind set to prosper and occupy key positions in the hierarchy from the top down. As for local and minor politicians, to my first hand understanding they almost invariably run for offices small or large motivated by something they stand to gain. This whole system is corrupt for these reasons.
Has anyone here who's had some experience in corporate employment noticed that those who get promotions are the ones who are less emotionally accessible, more secretive, and often less liked among the staff pool? In my experience, whenever I was considered for advance, I was invariably given a test task which seemed to put me in a moral dilemma. I think that's built into the system. Obviously when that happens, the person who advances will be the one with a greater degree of sociopathic tendency. I've seen kind people get relegated to the bottom, and managers who stand with their staff when pressured to go along with shitty things from the top get singled out for a subtle process of grinding them down till they're forced to quit--or framed into a position in which they can be 'legally' fired. That's a pathocratic system.
When I was 25, I knew such a psychopathic, sociopathic woman who'd amassed a fortune, and she gave me some advice:
"You don't have the killer instinct. If you did, you could be dangerous (she said that like it's a good thing). You can't get the killer instinct, you have to be born with it. But you can learn to defend yourself from people who do. You're smart enough. "
I asked, "how can I do that?"
She replied, "Real simple. Don't trust them. Period. Get everything in writing and dot every 'i' and cross every 't' and read the fine print. And always watch your back."
It's that kind of mind set I've watched all my life who take over everything they get involved in. They take over markets, monopolize business, and embed themselves in government and all positions of power. Because the really dangerous ones are highly intelligent, and very charismatic. They also support each other in Machiavellian fashion. They're the human predators--and they operate in hierarchies of dominance, like any pack of wolves or coyotes.
Good people get screwed because they don't have killer instinct so they don't see it in sociopaths. Not at first. Those who are the most trustworthy people tend to give their trust easily. After getting burned a few times, we learn that theirs types that look like nice people and seem friendly, but they're take things from others that don't belong to them. And they get away with it.
Then one realizes that such 'takers' have a different mind set. They have a different set of values. They are amoral. To them something you've got is theirs for the taking if they outsmart you, or force you. So it's clear that they see people not as other human beings with feelings and rights, they see humans as objects. Prey.
They are always a minority. They can be defeated in social circumstances of transparency, and when the normal folks recognize their symptoms and don't trust them and keep their collective eyes on them. So much of what they do depends on our consent, whether we know the fine print or not.
Over the centuries, normal people have gotten the upper hand in times when the public got wise to too much game playing and abuse going on. That's where any good parts of the system came from. Constitutions and laws based on equity, and transparency. Times of imbalance come in a long cycle, and we happen to be in one now. The tide will turn as more people realize that 'going along' only encourages pathocrats at any level of the hierarchy.
PONEROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION:
Any group of people wherein the carriers of various pathological factors function as inspirers, spellbinders, and leaders. We could list various names ascribed to such organizations by linguistic tradition: gangs, criminal mobs, mafias, cliques, and coteries, which cunningly avoid collision with the law while seeking to gain their own advantage. Such unions frequently aspire to political power in order to impose their expedient legislation upon society in the name of a suitably prepared ideology. When a ponerogenic process encompasses a society’s entire ruling class, or nation, we are dealing with macro-social ponerologic phenomenon.
PONEROLOGICAL SOCIETY:
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 and even valued. It is the egocentric, cold-blooded and remorseless psychopaths who blend into all aspects of society and have such devastating impacts on people around them. They learn to recognize each other in a crowd as early as childhood, and they develop an awareness of the existence of other individuals similar to them. They also become conscious of being different from the world of those other people surrounding them. They view us from a certain distance, take a paraspecific variety.
Lobaczewski, shows us how and why a truly global conspiracy can and does exist on our planet though it certainly isn’t a conspiracy in the normally accepted sense of the word. Their world is forever divided into “us and them” - their world with its own laws and customs and that other foreign world full of presumptuous ideas and customs in light of which they are condemned morally.
Imagine school teachers with power over your children who are “covert-aggressives.” Imagine doctors, psychologists, “ministers of the faith” and politicians in such positions.
With this understanding, we begin to get an even better idea of how psychopaths can conspire and actually pull it off: 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.
Long periods of preoccupation with the self and “accumulating benefits” for the self, diminish the ability to accurately read the environment and other people. […]It is this feature, this hystericization of society, that enables pathological plotters, snake charmers, and other primitive deviants to act as essential factors in the processes of the origination of evil on a macro-social scale.
We see exactly this pattern of social development in the United States over the past 50 to 60 years or even more. The fact is, many people who may have been born “normal” have become what might be termed “secondary psychopaths” or characteropaths due to the influence of psychopathy on American culture from many fields - including science, medicine, psychology, law, etc - where they are conscious of what they are doing to “normal” people!
If we speculate the actual number of psychopaths to be around 6 percent - or even just 4 percent as Stout claims - then these other "people" Lobaczewski is talking about could be as frequent as 12 to 18 percent of the population. That would mean that the total number of psychopaths plus "almost psychopaths" would be 16 to 24 percent of the total population.
THE PONEROLOGICAL USA:
Brute force must first stifle the resistance of an exhausted nation; 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 experience. 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, scientists, priests,, atheists, or nobodies known to no one - suddenly start changing their personality and world-view.
The conclusion is that the capitalistic way of life associated in the United States with “democracy,” has optimized the survival of psychopaths with the consequence that it is an adaptive “life strategy” that is extremely successful in U.S. society, and thus has increased in the population in genetic terms as well as acting as an attractor to psychopathic individuals in other countries for quite some time. The fact is, America is probably flooded with psychopaths and Skirtoids, as Lobaczewski mentions.
The American way of life has optimized the survival of psychopathy and in a world of psychopaths, those who are not genetic psychopaths, are induced to behave like psychopaths simply to survive. When the rules are set up to make a society “adaptive” to psychopathy, it makes sociopaths of everyone. As a consequence, a very large number of Americans are effective sociopaths.
And so, we have George Bush and the Fourth Reich calculating how much they can get away with by looking at the history of the reactions of the American people to cheating.
The fact is, it is almost a mechanical system that operates based on the psychological nature of human beings, most of whom like to live in denial or need to live in denial to please their parents, their peers, their religious leaders, and their political leaders. All they want to do is have some relaxation to enjoy the “American Dream.” After all, “if ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise”. This is most especially true when we consider the survival instinct of the ego. If the official culture - created by psychopaths - says that there is no "man behind the curtain", working through the inculcated belief systems, there is little possibility that most people will be able to see the source of the ponerological phenomena in our world.
Consider all of the foregoing information now in relation to the 9/11 attacks and the fact that so many Americans find it almost impossible to believe that their government officials would wantonly sacrifice the lives of its citizens to further their personal agendas. More importantly, consider the fact that your government knows how you think only too well. In fact, they have CREATED your thinking processes!
PONEROLOGICAL TYPES:
The psychological mechanism of paranoid phenomena is twofold: one is caused by damage
to the brain tissue, the other is functional or behavioral
Frontal characteropathy:
Brain cortex damage in these areas selectively impairs the above mentioned function without impairing memory, associative capacity, or in particular such instinct-based feelings and functions as for instance the ability to intuit a psychological situation.Such "Stalinistic characters" traumatize and actively spellbind others
Drug induced characteropathies:
Cancer treatment, endogenous toxins or viruses. When sometimes the mumps proceeds with a brain reaction, it leaves in its wake a discrete pallor or flatness of feelings and a slight decrease in mental efficiency.
Schizotypal personality disorder:
Carriers of this anomaly are hypersensitive and distrustful. It is low among Blacks, and highest among Jews. In non-Semitic nations, schizoidals are somewhat more numerous than essential psychopaths.
Skirtoids:
These were isolated relatively long ago by Brzezicki and accepted by E. Kretschmer as characteristic of Eastern Europe in particular. Skirtoids are vital, egotistical, and thick-skinned individuals who make good soldiers because of their endurance and psychological resistance. They prove rigidly conservative in all areas and supportive of governments that rule with a heavy hand. Kretschmer was of the opinion that this anomaly was a biodynamic phenomenon caused by the crossing of two widely removed ethnic groups which is frequent in that area of Europe. If that were the case, North America should be full of skirtoids.
REFERENCES
Ponerology Part 1:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski.htm
Ponerology Part 2:
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/political_ponerology_lobaczewski_2.htm
The Genesis of Evil on a Macrosocial Scale:
http://www.cassiopaea.com/cassiopaea/psychopath_macrosocial_evil.htm
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