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

has been witnessed in history, imperialism was always its most

demonstrative quality.

On the other hand, there are countries with normal man’s

governments wherein the overwhelming majority of societies

shudders to think a similar system could be imposed on them.

The governments of such nations thereupon do everything they

can within the framework of their possibilities and their under-

standing of the phenomenon in order to contain its expansion.

The citizens of those countries would sigh with relief if some

upheaval were to replace this malevolent and incomprehensible

system with a more human, more easily understood, govern-

mental method with whom peaceful coexistence would be pos-

sible.

100 Example: the events of September 11, 2001, undoubtedly manufactured

by the Pathocracy. [Editor’s note.]

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Such countries thus undertake various means of action for

this purpose, their quality depending on the possibility of un-

derstanding that other reality. Such efforts resonate within the

country, and the military power of normal man’s countries

limits the pathocracy’s possibilities of armed maneuvers.

Weakening those countries that could possibly stand against

the pathocracy, especially by utilizing the response pathocracy

awakens in some of their deviant citizens, again becomes a

matter of the pathocracy’s survival.

Economic factors constitute a non-negligible part of the mo-

tivation for this expansionist tendency. Since the managerial

functions have been taken over by individuals with mediocre

intelligence and pathological character traits, the pathocracy

becomes incapable of properly administering anything at all.

The area suffering most severely must always be whichever

one requires a person to act independently, not wasting time

searching for the proper way to behave. Agriculture is depend-

ent upon changing climate conditions and the appearance of

pests and plant diseases. A farmer’s personal qualities have

thus been an essential factor of success in this area, as it was

for many centuries. Pathocracy therefore invariably brings

about food shortages.

However, many countries with normal man’s systems

abound in sufficiency of industrial products and experience

problems with their food surpluses and temporary economic

recessions even though the citizens are by no means over-

worked. The temptation to dominate such a country and its

prosperity, that perennial imperialist motive, thus becomes

even more strong in the pathocracy. The collected prosperity of

the conquered nation can be exploited for a time, the citizens

forced to work harder for paltry remuneration. For the moment,

no thought is given to the fact that introducing a pathocratic

system within such a country will eventually cause similar

unproductive conditions; after all psychological deviance, by

definition, indicates a lack of self-knowledge in this area. Un-

fortunately, the idea of conquering rich countries also moti-

vates the minds of many poor non-pathological fellows suffer-

ing under the pathocracy, but not understanding why, and who

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would like to use this opportunity to grab something for them-

selves and eat their fill of good food.

As has been the case for centuries, military power is of

course the primary means for achieving these ends. Throughout

the centuries, though, whenever history has registered the ap-

pearance of the phenomenon of pathocracy, (regardless of the

ideological cloak covering it), specific measures of influence

have also become apparent: something in the order of specific

intelligence in the service of international intrigue facilitating

conquest. This quality is derived from the above-discussed

personality characteristics inspiring the overall phenomenon; it

should constitute data for historians to identify this type of

phenomenon throughout history.

People exist everywhere in the world with specifically sus-

ceptible deviant personalities; even a faraway pathocracy

evokes a resonating response in them, working on their under-

lying feeling that “there is a place for people like us there”.

Uncritical, frustrated, and abused people also exist everywhere,

and they can be reached by appropriately elaborated propa-

ganda. The future of a nation is greatly dependent on how

many such people it contains. Thanks to its specific psycho-

logical knowledge and its conviction that normal people are

naive, a pathocracy is able to improve its “anti-

psychotherapeutic” techniques, and pathologically egotistical

as usual, to insinuate its deviant world of concepts to others in

other countries, thus making them susceptible to conquest and

domination.