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

followers had ascertained that you were ill with it, you had to be locked up

and knocked down with sedatives immediately, or the disease would ‘pro-

gress’. ...dissidents are simply locked up in a psychiatric institution and said

to be insane.”

Up until his death in 1987 Snezhnevsky denied that his theory was being

abused by the Soviet regime. But his former assistants now admit, that he

knew “all too well” what was going on. The only problem is, that those assis-

tants still talk about it only on the sly. They work at the Moscow institutes

where the scientific successors of Snezhnevsky are still in charge. This clique

of about thirty or forty psychiatrists at the time controlled all the important

institutes for scientific research in Moscow and this is practically the same up

to now. The consequence of Snezhnevsky’s ideas, apart from the fact that

they were used as a means of repression, is that psychiatry in the former

Soviet Union “is confronted with a gap of about fifty years”. Western litera-

ture on psychiatry was forbidden in the Soviet Union, psychiatrists who stood

up against the political abuse of their science ended up behind bars or were

themselves declared to be “insidiously schizophrenic” . “A Mess in Psychia-

try”, an interview with Robert van Voren, General Secretary of Geneva Ini-

tiative on Psychiatry, published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on

August 9, 1997 [Editor’s note.]

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This accumulation of proper knowledge would, within a

very short time, enable the undertaking of investigations whose

meaning we already understand. Missing elements and insuffi-

ciently investigated questions would be complemented and

deepened by means of the appropriate detailed research. The

diagnosis of the pathocratic state of affairs would then be

elaborated within the first dozen or so years of the formation of

the pathocracy, especially if the latter is imposed. The basis of

the deductive rationale would be significantly wider than any-

thing the author can present here, and would be illustrated by

means of a rich body of analytical and statistical material.

Once transmitted to world opinion, such a diagnosis would

quickly become incorporated into it that opinion, forcing naive

political and propaganda doctrines out of societal conscious-

ness. It would reach the nations that were the objects of the

pathocratic empire’s expansionist intentions. This would render

the usefulness of any such propagandized ideology as a

pathocratic Trojan horse doubtful at best.

In spite of differences among them, other countries with

normal human systems would be united by characteristic soli-

darity in the defense of an understood danger, similar to the

solidarity linking normal people living under pathocratic rule.

This consciousness, popularized in the countries affected by

this phenomenon, would simultaneously reinforce psychologi-

cal resistance on the part of normal human societies and furnish

them with new measures of self defense.

Can any pathocratic empire risk permitting such a possibil-

ity?

In times when the above-mentioned disciplines are develop-

ing swiftly in many countries, the problem of preventing such a

psychiatric threat becomes a matter of “to be or not to be” for

pathocracy. Any possibility of such a situation emerging must

thus be staved off prophylactically and skillfully, both within

and without the empire. At the same time, the empire is able to

find effective preventive measures thanks to its consciousness

of being different as well as that specific psychological knowl-

edge of psychopaths with which we are already familiar, par-

tially reinforced by academic knowledge.

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Both inside and outside the boundaries of countries affected

by the above-mentioned phenomenon, a purposeful and con-

scious system of control, terror, and diversion is thus set to

work.

Any scientific papers published under such governments or

imported from abroad must be monitored to ascertain that they

do not contain any data which could be harmful to the pathoc-

racy. Specialists with superior talent become the objects of

blackmail and malicious control. This of course causes the

results to become inferior with reference to these areas of sci-

ence.

The entire operation must of course be managed in such a

way as to avoid attracting the attention of public opinion in

countries with normal human structures. The effects of such a

“bad break” could be too far-reaching. This explains why peo-

ple caught doing investigative work in this area are destroyed