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by cases of essential psychopathy, followed by those with simi-

lar anomalies, and finally by people alienated from the society

in question as a result of racial or national differences.

The phenomenon of pathocracy matures during this period:

an extensive and active indoctrination system is built, with a

suitably refurbished ideology constituting the vehicle or Trojan

horse for the purpose of pathologizing the thought processes of

individuals and society. The goal- forcing human minds to

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incorporate pathological experiential methods and thought-

patterns, and consequently accepting such rule - is never

openly admitted. This goal is conditioned by pathological ego-

tism, and the possibility of accomplishing it strikes the

pathocrats as not only indispensable, but feasible. Thousands of

activists must therefore participate in this work. However, time

and experience confirm what a psychologist may have long

foreseen: the entire effort produces results so very limited that

it is reminiscent of the labors of Sisyphus. It only results in

producing a general stifling of intellectual development and

deep-rooted protest against affront-mongering “hypocrisy”.

The authors and executors of this program are incapable of

understanding that the decisive factor making their work diffi-

cult is the fundamental nature of normal human beings – the

majority.

The entire system of force, terror, and forced indoctrination,

or, rather, pathologization, thus proves effectively unfeasible,

which causes the pathocrats no small measure of surprise. Re-

ality places a question mark on their conviction that such

methods can change people in such fundamental ways so that

they can eventually recognize this pathocratic kind of govern-

ment as a “normal state”.

During the initial shock, the feeling of social links between

normal people fade. After that has been survived, however, the

overwhelming majority of people begin to manifest their own

phenomenon of psychological immunization. Society simulta-

neously starts collecting practical knowledge on the subject of

this new reality and its psychological properties.

Normal people slowly learn to perceive the weak spots of

such a system and utilize the possibilities of more expedient

arrangement of their lives. They begin to give each other ad-

vice in these matters, thus slowly regenerating the feelings of

social links and reciprocal trust. A new phenomenon occurs:

separation between the pathocrats and the society of normal

people. The latter have an advantage of talent, professional

skills, and healthy common sense. They therefore hold certain

very advantageous cards. The pathocracy finally realizes that it

must find some modus vivendi or relations with the majority of

society: “After all, somebody’s got to do the work for us.”

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There are other needs and pressures felt by the pathocrats,

especially from outside. The pathological face must be hidden

from the world somehow, since recognition of the deviant rul-

ership by world opinion would be a catastrophe. Ideological

propaganda alone would then be an inadequate disguise. Pri-

marily in the interests of the new elite and its expansionary

plans, a pathocratic state must maintain commercial relations

with the countries of normal man. The pathocratic state aims to

achieve international recognition as a certain kind of political

structure; and it fears recognition in terms of a true clinical

diagnosis.

All this makes pathocrats tend to limit their measures of ter-

ror, subjecting their propaganda and indoctrination methods to

a certain cosmetology, and to accord the society they control

some margin of autonomous activity, especially regarding cul-

tural life. The more liberal pathocrats would not be averse to

giving such a society a certain minimum of economic prosper-

ity in order to reduce the irritation level, but their own corrup-

tion and inability to administer the economy prevents them

from doing so.

And so, with the above considerations being brought to the

forefront of pathocratic attention, this great societal disease

continues to run its course through a new phase: methods of

activity become milder, and there is coexistence with countries

whose structure is that of normal man.

Any psychopathologist studying this phenomenon will be

reminded of the dissimulative state or phase of a patient at-

tempting to play the role of a normal person, hiding his patho-