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

based on a naturalistically objectified understanding of this

other reality, is colored by a feeling of proper knowledge,

which thus creates a new human network; achieving such im-

munity appears a necessary precondition for success regarding

any efforts and actions of a political nature which would aim at

having governments taken over by a society of normal people.

Without such consciousness and immunization, it will always

be difficult to achieve cooperation between free countries and

nations suffering under pathocratic rule. No language of com-

mon communication can be guaranteed by any political doc-

trines based on the natural imagination of people lacking both

the practical experience and a naturalistic understanding of the

phenomenon.

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The most modern and expensive weapons threatening hu-

manity with global catastrophe are presently obsolete the very

day they are produced.

Why?

They are the weapons of a war which must never take place,

and the nations of the world pray that it never does.

The history of mankind has been a history of wars, which

makes it lack eternal meaning in our eyes. A new great war

would represent the triumph of madness over the nations’ will

to live.

International reason must therefore prevail, reinforced by

the newly discovered moral values and naturalistic science

concerning the causes and genesis of evil.

The “new weapon” suggested herein kills no one; it is nev-

ertheless capable of stifling the process of the genesis of evil

within a person and activating his own curative powers. If so-

cieties are furnished an understanding of the pathological na-

ture of evil, they will be able to effect concerted action based

on moral and naturalistic criteria.

This new method of solving eternal problems will be the

most humanitarian weapon ever used in human history, as well

as the only one which can be used safely and effectively. We

may also hope that using such a weapon will help end centuries

of warfare among nations.

CHAPTER X

A VISION OF THE FUTURE

If it is to bear ripe fruit, every human activity must take root

in the soil of two time frames: past and future. The past pro-

vides us knowledge and experience which teach us to solve

problems and warn us when we are about to commit errors

reminiscent of past mistakes. A realistic apperception of the

past and a sometimes painful understanding of its errors and

evils thus become necessary preconditions for building a hap-

pier future.

A similarly realistic vision of the future, complemented by

well thought out detailed data, endows our contemporary ac-

tivities with a direction and renders their goals more concrete.

Mental effort aimed at forming such a vision enables us to

overcome psychological barriers to free reason and imagina-

tion, barriers caused by egotism and survival of habits from the

past. People fixated upon the past gradually lose contact with

the present and are thus incapable of doing much good for the

future. Let us therefore direct our minds toward the future,

beyond the ostensibly insuperable realities of present age.

There are many advantages to be gained from constructively

planning the future, including the more distant time perspec-

tive, if we can foresee its shape and facilitate pinpointed solu-

tions. This requires that we properly analyze reality and make

correct predictions, i.e. discipline of thought so as to exclude

any subconscious data manipulation and any excessive influ-

ence from our emotions and preferences. Elaborating such an

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original vision so as to make it a reified blueprint for a new

reality is the best way to educate human minds for other simi-

larly difficult tasks in the concrete future.

This would also permit timely elimination of many differ-

ences of opinion which could later lead to violent conflicts;

these sometimes result from an insufficiently realistic apper-

ception of the present state of affairs, various pipe-dream atti-

tudes, or propaganda activities. If it is logically developed and

avoids collisions with an adequately objective understanding of

phenomena which have already been discussed in part, such a

constructive vision can come true in future reality.

Such planning should be reminiscent of a well-organized

technical project, wherein the designers’ work is preceded by

an examination of conditions and possibilities. Executing the

work also requires time-frame planning in accordance with the

appropriate technical data and the human safety factor. We

know from experience that increasing the scope and accuracy

of design activities makes their execution and utility more prof-

itable. Similarly, the more modern and inventive constructions