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without a sound and suspicious persons are forced abroad to

become the objects of appropriately organized harassment

campaigns there.112

Battles are thus being fought on secret fronts which may be

reminiscent of the Second World War. The soldiers and leaders

fighting in various theaters were not aware that their fate de-

pended on the outcome of that other war, waged by scientists

and other soldiers, whose goal was preventing the Germans

from producing the atom bomb. The Allies won that battle, and

the United States became the first to possess this lethal weapon.

For the present, however, the West keeps losing scientific and

political battles on this new secret front. Lone fighters are

looked upon as odd, denied assistance, or forced to work hard

for their bread. Meanwhile, the ideological Trojan horse keeps

invading new countries.

An examination of the methodology of such battles, both on

the internal and the external fronts, points to that specific

pathocratic knowledge so difficult to comprehend in the light

of the natural language of concepts. In order to be able to con-

trol people and those relatively non-popularized areas of sci-

112 This is also why !obaczewski was deprived of the data he had assembled

over so many years that would have supported the information presented in

this book. [Editor’s note.]

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ence, one must know, or be able to sense, what is going on and

which fragments of psychopathology are most dangerous. The

examiner of this methodology thus also becomes aware of the

boundaries and imperfections of this self-knowledge and prac-

tice, i.e. the other side’s weaknesses, errors, and gaffes, and

may manage to take advantage of them.

In nations with pathocratic systems, supervision over scien-

tific and cultural organizations is assigned to a special depart-

ment of especially trusted people, a “Nameless Office” com-

posed almost entirely of relatively intelligent persons who be-

tray characteristic psychopathic traits. These people must be

capable of completing their academic studies, albeit sometimes

by forcing examiners to issue generous evaluations. Their tal-

ents are usually inferior to those of average students, especially

regarding psychological science. In spite of that, they are re-

warded for their services by obtaining academic degrees and

positions and are allowed to represent their country’s scientific

community abroad. As especially trusted individuals, they are

allowed to not participate in local meetings of the party, and

even to avoid joining it entirely. In case of need, they might

then pass for non-party. In spite of that, these scientific and

cultural superintendents are well known to the society of nor-

mal people, who learn the art of differentiation rather quickly.

They are not always properly distinguished from agents of the

political police; although they consider themselves to be in a

better class than the latter, they must nevertheless cooperate

with them.

We often meet with such people abroad, in the countries of

normal people, where various foundations and institutes give

them scientific grants with the conviction that they are thereby

assisting the development of proper knowledge in countries

under “communist” governments. These benefactors do not

realize that they are rendering a disservice to such science and

to real scientists by allowing the supervisors to attain a certain

semi-authentic authority, and by allowing them to become

more familiar with whatever they shall later deem to be dan-

gerous.

After all, those people shall later have the power to permit

someone to take a doctorate, embark upon a scientific career,

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achieve academic tenure, and become promoted. Very medio-

cre scientists themselves, they attempt to knock down more

talented persons, governed both by self-interest and that typical

jealousy which characterizes a pathocrat’s attitude toward nor-

mal people. They will be the ones monitoring scientific papers

for their “proper ideology” and attempting to ensure that a

good specialist will be denied the scientific literature he

needs.113

Controls are exceptionally malicious and treacherous in the

psychological sciences in particular, for reasons now under-

standable to us. Written and unwritten lists are compiled for

subjects that may not be taught, and corresponding directives

are issued to appropriately distort other subjects. This list is so

vast in the area of psychology that nothing remains of this sci-

ence except a skeleton picked bare of anything that might be

subtle or penetrating.

A psychiatrist’s required curriculum contains neither the

minimal knowledge from the areas of general, developmental,

and clinical psychology, nor the basic skills in psychotherapy.