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

“divine right”, a system which predictably defended their posi-

tion, and though they were commanding the law of grace, they

proved almost completely soulless and vengeful within today’s

conception of codified regulations. Such a state of affairs abet-

ted rather than prevented the emergence of pathological sys-

tems of force.

This explains the actual need to effect an essential break-

through and formulation of new principles derived from an

understanding of man, including enemies and evildoers.

Having emerged from great suffering and a comprehension

of its causes, such legislation will be more modern and humani-

tarian as well as more effective in the area of protecting socie-

ties from the products of ponerogenesis. The great decision to

forgive similarly derives from the most credible precepts of

eternal moral teachings, something also in accordance with

contemporary evolution in societal thought. It expresses practi-

cal concerns as well as a naturalistic comprehension of the

genesis of evil. Only such an act of mercy, unprecedented in

history, can break the age-old chain of the ponerogenic cycles

and open the door both to new solutions for perennial problems

and to a new legislative method based on an understanding of

the causes of evil.

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THERAPY OF THE WORLD

Such a difficult decisions therefore appear in keeping with

the signs of the times. The author believes that this precise kind

of breakthrough in the methodology of thought and action is

within the Divine Plan for this generation.

Ideologies

Just as a psychiatrist is mainly interested in disease, paying

less attention to the patient’s delusional system deforming

whatever individual reality he has, the object of global therapy

should be the world’s diseases. The deformed ideological sys-

tems which grew from historical conditions and a given civili-

zation’s weaknesses should be understood insofar as they are a

disguise, operational instrument, or Trojan horse for

pathocratic infection.

Societal consciousness should first separate these two het-

erogeneous layers of the phenomenon by means of analysis and

scientific evaluation effected upon them. Such a correct and

selective understanding should become part and parcel of all

nations’ consciousness in some appropriately accessible form.

This would correspondingly reinforce their capacity for inde-

pendent orientation within today’s complicated reality by

means of discriminating such phenomena in keeping with its

nature. This will bring about a correction in moral and world

view attitudes. Concentrating our efforts upon the pathological

phenomenon shall then produce proper understanding and suf-

ficiently complete results.

The absence of this basic discrimination in political opera-

tions is an error leading to wasted effort. We may not agree

with ideologies, since all nineteenth-century political ideolo-

gies oversimplified social reality to the point of crippling it,

even in their original form, not to mention their pathologically

deformed versions. The foreground should nevertheless be

occupied by an identification of their role within the macroso-

cial phenomenon; analysis, criticism, and even, more particu-

larly, combating them can be placed in the background. Any

discussions regarding directions needed to change social struc-

tures may be held concurrently as long as they take this basic

separation of phenomena into account. Thus corrected, social

consciousness can effect a solution to these problems more

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easily, and social groups which are intransigent today will be-

come more amenable to compromise.

Once a mentally ill person has been successfully cured of

his illness, we often try to restore the former patient to the

world of his more real convictions. The psychotherapist then

searches the delusionally caricaturized world for the primeval

and always more sensible contents, thereupon building a bridge

right over the period of madness to a now healthy reality. Such

an operation of course requires the necessary skills in the do-

main of psychopathology, since every disease has its own style

of deforming the patient’s original world of experiences and

convictions. The deformed ideological system created by

pathocracy should be subjected to analogous analysis, fishing

out the primeval and certainly more sensible values. This must

utilize knowledge of the specific style whereby a pathocracy

caricaturizes the ideology of a movement upon which it feeds

parasitically.

This great disease of Pathocracy accommodates various so-

cial ideologies to its own properties and the pathocrats’ inten-

tions, thereby depriving them of any possibility of natural de-

velopment and maturation in the light of man’s healthy com-