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weakness can sometimes cause it to submit to the violence of a

pathocratic neighbor country (against their will) whose system

did not exhibit such wide-scope infirmities earlier. After forci-

ble imposition of such a system the course of pathologization

of life becomes different; and such a pathocracy will be less

stable, its very existence dependent upon the factor of never-

ending outside force.

Let us now address the latter situation first: Brute force

must first stifle the resistance of an exhausted nation; people

possessing military or leadership skills must be disposed of,

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 experi-

ence. The stultifying influence of this deviant world of con-

cepts finishes the job, and common sense demands caution and

endurance.

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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, scien-

tists, priests, atheists, or nobodies known to no one, suddenly

start changing their personality and world view. Decent Chris-

tians and patriots just yesterday, they now espouse the new

ideology and behave contemptuously to anyone still adhering

to the old values. Only later does it become evident that this

ostensibly avalanche-like process has its natural limits. With

time, the society becomes stratified based on factors entirely

different from the old political convictions and social links. We

already know the causes for this.

Through direct contact with the pathocracy, society simul-

taneously begins to sense that its true content is different from

the ideologies disseminated earlier, while the country was still

independent. This divergence is a traumatizing factor, because

it questions the value of accepted convictions. Years must pass

before the mind has adapted to the new concepts. When those

of us who have experienced this then travel to Western Europe,

or especially to the United States, people who still believe the

original ideologies, the mask that was presented by the pathoc-

racy, strike us as being silly.

Pathocracy imposed by force arrives in a finished form, we

could even call it ripe. People observing it close up were un-

able to distinguish the earlier phases of its development, when

the schizoidals and characteropaths were in charge. The need

for the existence of these phases and their character had to be

reconstructed in this work on the basis of historical data.

In an imposed system, psychopathic material is already

dominant; it was perceived as something contrary to human

nature, virtually bereft of the mask of ideology rendered ever

less necessary in a conquered country, but nevertheless still

masked by its incomprehensibility to people who are still trying

to think in the categories of a natural world view.

We at first perceived the old system of categories and un-

derstanding as painfully inadequate for purposes of compre-

hending the reality which had overwhelmed us. The essential

objective categories we needed to classify what we observed

would not be created until many years of effort had passed.

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Individuals with deviant characteristics, scattered throughout

society, however, unerringly sensed that the time had come for

their dreams to come true, the time to exact revenge upon those

“others” who had abused and humiliated them before. This

violent formative process of pathocracy lasted barely eight

years or so, thereupon making a similarly escalated transforma-

tion into the dissimulative phase.

The system functions, psychological mechanisms, and mys-

terious causative links in a country upon which a quasi-political

structure was imposed are basically analogous to those of the

country which gave rise to the phenomenon. The system

spreads downward until it reaches every village and every hu-

man individual. The actual contents and internal causes of this

phenomenon also manifest no essential difference, regardless

of whether we make our observation in the capital or in some

outlying small town. If the entire organism is sick, diagnostic

biopsy tissue can be collected wherever this can be performed

most expediently. Those who live in countries with normal

human systems attempting to understand this other system by

means of their imagination, or by penetrating the walls of the

Kremlin where it is assumed that the intentions of the highest

authorities are concealed, do not realize that this is a very oner-

ous method to do something that can be done more efficiently.

In order to perceive the essence of the phenomenon, we can