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

analysis of dreams.

As already pointed out in the chapter introducing some in-

dispensable concepts, an understanding of human instinct is a

key to understanding man; however, a knowledge of said in-

stinct’s anomalies also represents a key to understanding

pathocracy.

Although used ever more rarely in psychological practice,

dream analysis shall always remain the best school of psycho-

logical thought; that makes it dangerous by nature. Conse-

quently, even research on the psychology of mate selection is

frowned upon, at best.

The essence of psychopathy may not, of course, be re-

searched or elucidated. Darkness is cast upon this matter by

means of an intentionally devised definition of psychopathy

which includes various kinds of character disorders, together

with those caused by completely different and known causes.115

This definition must be memorized not only by every lecturer

in psychopathology, psychiatrist, and psychologist, but also by

some political functionaries with no education in that area.

This definition must be used in all public appearances

whenever it is for some reason impossible to avoid the subject.

However, it is preferable for a lecturer in such areas to be

someone who always believes whatever is most convenient in

his situation, and whose intelligence does not predestine him to

delve into subtle differentiations of a psychological nature.

It is also worth pointing out here that the chief doctrine of

said system reads “Existence defines consciousness”. As such,

it belongs to psychology rather than to any political doctrine.

This doctrine actually contradicts a good deal of empirical data

indicating the role of hereditary factors in the development of

man’s personality and fate. Lecturers may refer to research on

identical twins, but only in a brief, cautious, and formal fash-

115 This is also the case in the U.S. as noted in several articles by Robert

Hare. [Editor’s note.]

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ion. Considerations on this subject may, however, not be pub-

lished in print.

We return once more to this system’s peculiar psychological

“genius” and its self-knowledge. One might admire how the

above mentioned definitions of psychopathy effectively blocks

the ability to comprehend phenomena covered therein. We may

investigate the relationships between these prohibitions and the

essence of the macrosocial phenomenon they in fact mirror.

We may also observe the limits of these skills and the errors

committed by those who execute this strategy. These shortcom-

ings are skillfully taken advantage of for purposes of smug-

gling through some proper knowledge on the part of the more

talented specialists, or by elderly people no longer fearful for

their careers or even their lives.

The “ideological” battle is thus being waged on territory

completely unperceived by scientists living under governments

of normal human structures and attempting to imagine that

other reality. This applies to all people denouncing “Commu-

nism”, as well as those for whom this ideology has become

their faith.

Shortly after arriving in the U.S.A. , I was handed a news-

paper by a young black man on some street in Queens, N.Y. I

reached for my purse, but he waved me off; the paper was free.

The front page showed a picture of a young and handsome

Brezhnev decorated with all the medals he did not in fact re-

ceive until much later. On the last page, however, I found a

quite well-worked-out summary of investigations performed at

the University of Massachusetts on identical twins raised sepa-

rately. These investigations furnished empirical indications for

the important role of heredity, and the description contained a

literary illustration of the similarity of the fates of twin pairs.

How far “ideologically disorientated” the editors of this paper

must have been to publish something which could never have

appeared in the area subjected to a supposedly Communist

system.116

116 The freedom that !obaczewski noted in the U.S. in the 1980 is fast being

replaced by an almost total pathocracy. It won’t be long before such articles

are censored in U.S. newspapers as well, unless, of course, the study is “de-

signed” to prove the superiority of psychopathy. [Editor’s note.]

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PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

In that other reality, the battlefront crosses every study of

psychology and psychiatry, every psychiatric hospital, every

mental health consultation center, and the personality of every-

one working in these areas. What takes place there: hidden

thrust-and-parry duels, a smuggling through of true scientific

information and accomplishments, and harassment.

Some people become morally derailed under these condi-

tions, whereas others create a solid foundation for their convic-