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tion. The latter is more a direct threat to the lower echelons of

the pathocratic elite than to the leaders.

Pathocracy survives thanks to the feeling of being threat-

ened by the society of normal people, as well as by other coun-

tries wherein various forms of the system of normal man per-

sist. For the rulers, staying on the top is therefore the classic

problem of “to be or not to be”.

99 This should be kept firmly in mind by those who think that getting rid of

George W. Bush and the Neocons will change anything. [Editor’s note.]

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PATHOCRACY

We can thus formulate a more cautious question: can such a

system ever waive territorial and political expansion abroad

and settle for its present possessions? What would happen if

such a state of affairs ensured internal peace, corresponding

order, and relative prosperity within the nation? The over-

whelming majority of the country’s population would then

make skillful use of all the emerging possibilities, taking ad-

vantage of their superior qualifications in order to fight for an

ever-increasing scope of activities; thanks to their higher birth

rate, their power will increase. This majority will be joined by

some sons from the privileged class who did not inherit the

pathological genes. The pathocracy’s dominance will weaken

imperceptibly but steadily, finally leading to a situation

wherein the society of normal people reaches for power. This is

a nightmare vision to the psychopaths.

Thus, the biological, psychological, moral, and economic

destruction of the majority of normal people becomes, for the

pathocrats, a “biological” necessity. Many means serve this

end, starting with concentration camps and including warfare

with an obstinate, well-armed foe who will devastate and de-

bilitate the human power thrown at him, namely the very power

jeopardizing pathocrats rule: the sons of normal man sent out to

fight for an illusionary “noble cause.” Once safely dead, the

soldiers will then be decreed heroes to be revered in paeans,

useful for raising a new generation faithful to the pathocracy

and ever willing to go to their deaths to protect it.

Any war waged by a pathocratic nation has two fronts, the

internal and the external. The internal front is more important

for the leaders and the governing elite, and the internal threat is

the deciding factor where unleashing war is concerned. In pon-

dering whether to start a war against the pathocratic country,

other nations must therefore give primary consideration to the

fact that such a war can be used as an executioner of the com-

mon people whose increasing power represents incipient jeop-

ardy for the pathocracy. After all, pathocrats give short shrift to

blood and suffering of people they consider to be not quite

conspecific. Kings may have suffered due to the death of their

knights, but pathocrats never do: “We have a lot of people

here.” Should the situation be, or become, ripe in such a coun-

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try, however, anyone furnishing assistance to the nation will be

blessed by it; anyone withholding it will be cursed.

Pathocracy has other internal reasons for pursuing expan-

sionism through the use of all means possible. As long as that

“other” world governed by the systems of normal man exists, it

inducts into the non-pathological majority a certain sense of

direction. The non-pathological majority of the country’s popu-

lation will never stop dreaming of the reinstatement of the

normal man’s system in any possible form. This majority will

never stop watching other countries, waiting for the opportune

moment; its attention and power must therefore be distracted

from this purpose, and the masses must be “educated” and

channeled in the direction of imperialist strivings. This goal

must be pursued doggedly so that everyone knows what is be-

ing fought for and in whose name harsh discipline and poverty

must be endured. The latter factor – creating conditions of pov-

erty and hardship - effectively limits the possibility of “subver-

sive” activities on the part of the society of normal people.

The ideology must, of course, furnish a corresponding justi-

fication for this alleged right to conquer the world and must

therefore be properly elaborated. Expansionism is derived from

the very nature of pathocracy, not from ideology, but this fact

must be masked by ideology.100 Whenever this phenomenon