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

even fascinating, biological phenomenon. They often accepted

the risk of contact with the contagious pathogenic factors and

suffered losses in order to comprehend the ailment so as to be

able to heal people. Thanks to this, they achieved the possibil-

ity of etiotropic disease treatment and artificial immunization

of human organisms to disease. The doctor’s own health is thus

also better protected today; but he ought never to feel any con-

tempt for the patient or his disease.

When we are faced with a macrosocial pathological phe-

nomenon which requires us to proceed in a manner analogous

in principle to that governing contemporary medicine, espe-

cially with reference to overcoming diseases which quickly

propagate among the populations, the law demands necessary

rigorous measures which become binding upon healthy people

as well. It is also worth pointing out that people and political

organizations whose world view is leftist generally represent a

more consistent attitude in this matter, demanding such sacri-

fices in the name of the common good.

We must also be aware that the phenomenon facing us is

analogous to those diseases against which the old traditional

medicine proved inadequate. In order to overcome this state of

affairs, we must therefore utilize new means based upon an

understanding of the essence and causes of the pathocratic

phenomenon, i.e. according to principles analogous to those

governing modern medicine. The road to comprehension of the

phenomenon was also much more difficult and dangerous than

the one which should lead from such understanding to the find-

ing of naturalistically and morally justified, and properly orga-

nized, therapeutic activities. These methods are potentially

possible and feasible, since they derive from an understanding

of the phenomenon per se and become an extension thereof. In

this “disease”, as in many cases treated by psychotherapists, the

understanding alone already begins to heal human personali-

ties. The author confirmed this in practice in individual cases.

It will also appear that many known experiential results will

similarly become applicable.

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THERAPY OF THE WORLD

The insufficiency of efforts based upon the best moral val-

ues has become common knowledge after years of rebounding

as though from rubber bands. The powerful military weapons

that jeopardize all humanity can, on the other hand, be consid-

ered as indispensable as a strait-jacket, something whose use

diminishes in proportion to the improved skills governing the

behavior of those persons entrusted with the healing arts. We

need measures which can reach all people and all nations and

which can operate upon the recognized causes of great diseases

Such therapeutic measures cannot be limited to the phe-

nomenon of pathocracy. Pathocracy will always find a positive

response if some independent country is infected with an ad-

vanced state of hysterization, or if a small privileged caste op-

presses and exploits other citizens, keeping them backward and

in the dark; anyone willing to treat the world can then be

hounded, and his moral right to act be questioned. Evil in the

world, in fact, constitutes a continuum: one kind opens the door

to another, irrespective of its qualitative essence or the ideo-

logical slogans cloaking it.

It also becomes impossible to find effective means of thera-

peutic operation if the minds of people undertaking such tasks

are affected by a tendency to conversive thinking like subcon-

scious selection and substitution of data, or if some doctrine

preventing an objective perception of reality becomes manda-

tory. In particular, a political doctrine, for which a macrosocial

pathological phenomenon, in accordance with its famous ide-

ology, has become a dogma, blocks an understanding of its real

nature so well that purposeful action becomes impossible.

Anyone administering such action should undergo an appropri-

ate prior examination, or even a kind of psychotherapy, in or-

der to eliminate any tendencies toward even slightly sloppy

thinking.

Like every well-managed treatment, therapy of the world

must contain two basic demands: strengthening the overall

defensive powers of the human community and attacking its

most dangerous disease, etiotropically if possible. Taking into

account all the aspects referred to in the theoretical chapter on

ponerology, therapeutic efforts should be directed at subjecting

the operations of the known factors of the genesis of evil, as

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well as the processes of ponerogenesis itself, to the controls of

scientific and societal consciousness.

Present attempts at trusting moral data alone, no matter how

sincerely perceived, also prove inadequate as would trying to

operate solely on the basis of the data contained within this