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some of this latter features, since the polio virus which attacked

him when he was forty caused paresis to his legs. After over-

coming this, years of creative activity followed. However, it is

possible that his naive attitude toward Soviet policy during his

last term of office had a pathological component related to his

deteriorating health.

Character anomalies developing as a result of brain-tissue

damage behave like insidious ponerogenic factors. As a result

of the above-described features, especially the above-

mentioned naiveté and an inability to comprehend the crux of a

matter, their influence easily anchors in human minds, trauma-

tizing our psyches, impoverishing and deforming our thoughts

and feelings, and limiting individuals’ and societies’ ability to


45 Editor’s reminder that this book was written in 1985.

46 Current Western medical opinion states: Endogenous toxins include heavy

metals, pesticides, food additives, and industrial and household chemicals.

These can damage the liver and kidneys; they can also cross the blood-brain

barrier and damage brain cells. Workers exposed to high levels of inhaled

manganese showed concentrated levels in the basal ganglia, and exhibited

Parkinson’s-like syndrome. Observational studies have also shown increased

levels of aluminum, mercury, copper, and iron in the cerebral spinal fluid

(CSF) of Parkinson's patients. It is not fully determined whether these miner-

als found in the brain have any clinical significance. (Mitchell J. Ghen, D.O.,

Ph.D., and Maureen Melindrez, N.D.) [Editor’s note.]

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use common sense and to read a psychological or moral situa-

tion accurately. This opens the door to the influence of other

pathological characters who most frequently carry some inher-

ited psychological deviations; they then push the charac-

teropathic individuals into the shadows and proceed with their

ponerogenic work. That is why various types of characteropa-

thy participate during the initial periods of the genesis of evil,

both on the macrosocial scale and on the individual scale of

human families.

An improved social system of the future should thus protect

individuals and societies by preventing persons with the above

deviations, or certain characteristics to be discussed below,

from any societal functions wherein the fate of other people

would depend upon their behavior. This of course applies pri-

marily to top governmental positions. Such questions should be

dealt with by an appropriate institution composed of people

with a reputation for wisdom and with medical and psychologi-

cal training.

The features of brain-tissue lesions and their character dis-

order results are much easier to detect than certain inherited

anomalies. Thus, stifling ponerogenic processes by removing

these factors from the process of the synthesis of evil is effec-

tive during the early phases of such genesis, and much easier in

practice.

Inherited Deviations

Science already protects societies from the results of some

physiological anomalies which are accompanied by certain

psychological weaknesses. The tragic role played by hereditary

hemophilia among European royalty is well known. Responsi-

ble people in countries where the system of monarchy still

survives, are anxious not to allow a carrier of such a gene to

become queen. Any society exercising so much concern over

individuals with blood-coagulation insufficiency or other seri-

ous and life-threatening pathology would protest if a man af-

flicted with such a condition were appointed to a high office

bearing responsibility for many people. This behavior model

should be extended to many pathologies, including inherited

psychological anomalies.


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Daltonists, men with an impaired ability to distinguish red

and green colors from grey, are now barred from professions in

which this could cause a catastrophe. We also know that this

anomaly is often accompanied by a decrease in esthetic experi-

ence, emotions, and the feeling of linkage to people who can

see colors normally. Industrial psychologists are thus cautious

whether such a person should be entrusted with work requiring

dependence upon an autonomic sense of responsibility, as

workers safety is contingent upon this sense.

It was discovered long ago that these two above-mentioned

anomalies – hemophilia and color blindness - are inherited by

means of a gene located in the X chromosome, and tracking

their transmission through many generations is not difficult.

Geneticists have similarly studied the inheritance of many

other features of human organisms, but they have paid scant

attention to the anomalies interesting us here. Many features of

human character have a hereditary bases in genes located in the

same X chromosome; although it is not a rule. Something simi-

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