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more easily situate ourselves in a small town, where it is much

easier to peek backstage and analyze the nature of such a sys-

tem.

However, some of the differences in the nature of the

pathocratic phenomenon between the originating country and

the country on which it is forcibly imposed turn out to be per-

manent. The system will always strike the society that has been

taken over as something foreign associated with the other coun-

try. The society’s historical tradition and culture constitute a

connection to those strivings aimed in the direction of normal

man’s structures. The more mature cultural formations in par-

ticular prove the most highly resistant to the system’s destruc-

tive activities. The subjugated nation finds support and inspira-

tion for its psychological and moral resistance in its own cul-

tural, religious, and moral traditions. These values, elaborated

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through centuries, cannot easily be destroyed or co-opted by

pathocracy; quite the contrary, they even embark upon a more

intensive life in the new society. These values progressively

cleanse themselves of patriotic buffoonery, and their principal

contents become more real in their eternal meaning. If forced

by necessity, the culture of the country in question is concealed

in private homes or disseminated via conspiracy; however, it

continues to survive and develop, creating values which could

not have arisen during happier times.

As a result, such a society’s opposition becomes ever more

enduring, ever more skillfully effected. It turns out that those

who believed they could impose such a system, trusting that it

would then function on the pathocracy’s autonomic mecha-

nisms, were overly optimistic. Imposed pathocracy always

remains an alien system to the extent that, if it should fall in the

country of its birth, its endurance within the subjugated nation

would only be a matter of weeks.

Artifically Infected Pathocracy

and Psychological Warfare

If a nucleus of this macrosocial pathological phenomenon

already exists in the world, always cloaking its true quality

behind an ideological mask of some political system, it irradi-

ates into other nations via coded news difficult for normal peo-

ple to understand, but easy to read for psychopathic individu-

als. “That’s the place for us, we now have a homeland where

our dreams about ruling those “others” can come true. We can

finally live in safety and prosperity.” The more powerful this

nucleus and the pathocratic nation, the wider the scope of its

inductive siren-call, heard by individuals whose nature is corre-

spondingly deviant, as though they were superheterodyne re-

ceivers naturally attuned to the same wave-length. Unfortu-

nately, what is being used today is real radio transmitters in the

hundreds of kilowatts, as well as loyal covert agents of pathoc-

racy networking our planet.

Whether directly or indirectly, i.e. by means of deviant

“agents”, this call of pathocracy, once appropriately “decked-

out”, reaches a significantly wider circle of people, including

both individuals with various psychological deviations and

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those who are frustrated, deprived of the opportunity to earn an

education and make use of their talents, physically or morally

injured, or simply primitive. The scope of the response to this

call may vary in proportion, but nowhere will it represent the

majority. Nonetheless, the home-bred spellbinders who arise

never take into account the fact that they are not able to enrap-

ture the majority. 103

Various nations’ different degrees of resistance to this activ-

ity depend upon many factors, such as prosperity and its equi-

table distribution, the society’s educational level (especially

that of the poorer classes), the proportion of participation of

individuals who are primitive or have various deviations, and

the current phase of the hysteroidal cycle. Some nations have

developed immunity as a result of more direct contact with the

phenomenon, something we shall discuss in the next chapter.

In countries just emerging from primeval conditions and

lacking political experience, an appropriately elaborated revo-

lutionary doctrine reaches its society’s autonomous substratum

and finds people who treat it like ideational reality. This also

occurs in nations where an over-egoistical ruling class defends

its position by means of naively moralizing doctrines, where

injustice is rampant, or where an intensification of the hysteria

level stifles the operation of common sense. People who have

become accustomed to revolutionary catchwords no longer

watch to make sure that whoever expounds such an ideology is

a truly sincere adherent, and not just someone using the mask

of ideology to conceal other motives derived from his deviant

personality.