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THE TWO FACES OF POLITICAL PONEROLOGY
by
Barry Chamish
www.barrychamish.com
April
8, 2010
A longtime reader sent me a book that he assured me would
radically change my political understanding. And he was almost right.
The book is called Political Ponerology written by a
self-claimed Polish refugee in America, Andrew Lobaczewski, hereafter
referred to as the author. To my initial delight, it is edited by a
correspondent of mine for the past 14 years, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, hereafter
referred to as the editor.
Ponerology is a term invented by the author and it means the study of
the nature of political evil. Abusive editing does not fall into this
category, but it should. As we shall see, the editor got hold of the rights
to an important work and exploited it to push her own agenda, one which has
nothing to do with the book itself.
The author believes that psychopaths are driven by rejection to take
over governments and make whole nations and societies evil. We all know, or
should know, psychopaths. They are manipulative, mostly men, who totally
lack empathy for other people. Though they have learned to appear normal,
that is merely a survival tactic. They lie without conscience, have sexual
relations without regard for the feelings of their victims, they hurt others
because they don't care about them, they foment division in all human
relationships, and they justify complete selfishness because they feel
superior to the adjusted world. When caught in misdoing, they put the hurt
party on the defensive with false justifications. When they manage to
achieve political power they can and do murder without remorse because they
don't feel the pain of humanity. And they will murder for such "crimes" as
simply disagreeing with them.
The author claims just .6% of a typical nation is composed of
psychopaths but ten times that number, or 6%, have various psychological
illnesses that permit them to support, even violently, the psychopath. They
become the nouveau riche of the new society, while another 12% are callous
or cowardly enough to create the bureaucracy. In short, it takes only 18% of
the population to run an evil state.
This sums up the author's case. The book is a ponderous killer to
read, written in the humorless style of most Eastern European literature. It
is a thorough, clinical, case by case study of rule by psychopaths. In the
editor's introduction, we get a first example of what will give the work
unnecessary tension:
(Imagine) a case where the subject spent his childhood blowing up
frogs with firecrackers. It is widely known that George W. Bush did this.
From this humble beginning, look what we get! We begin with a barely
comprehensible statement from the author followed by footnote number 38 by
the editor:
Even those historians familiar with the genesis and character of
the Prussian state, including its ideological subjugation of individuals to
the authority of king and emperor, and its
tradition of bloody expansionism, intuit that these situations
contained some activity of an uncomprehended fatality which eludes an
analysis in terms of historic causality. 38
Now don't you wish you had said that? To which the editor replies:
38. An interesting comparison is the regime of George W. Bush and
the Neoconservatives It closely follows the Kaiser in Germany.
Yeah, sure it does. Now watch the editor change the view of the
author, who has sheepishly noted that among nations, Jews have the highest
rate of schizoids:
The famous writings attributed to the Learned Elders Of Zion begin
with a typically schizoidal declaration...We have to remember that 97% of
Jews do not manifest this anomaly, and that it also appears among all
European nations. 101
To which the editor corrects the author, noting that:
101. The Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion is now known to have
been a hoaxed attribution to Jews. However, the contents are clearly not
hoaxed ideas since a reasonable assessment of the events of the United
States over the past fifty years or so gives ample evidence of their
application in order to bring about the current Neoconservative
administration.
That's setting the author straight. And it just keeps getting
worse.
They initially perform subordinate functions in such a movement
and execute the leaders' orders, especially whenever something needs to be
done which inspires revulsion in others. 103
And that little observation sent the editor on a three quarter page
diatribe beginning with:
103. Here, we cannot help but think of Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and
Donald Rumsfield, proteges of Neoconservative philosopher, Leo Strauss.
If I was the author, I'd be furious with the editor. She has taken
his masterwork and added thoughts outside his worldview. And as we shall
see, it only gets more intrusive. She has concluded that Bush Jr. is a frog
murdering psychopath. So what does that make his predecessor William
Clinton, who used women non-stop and lied about it every time? Or of the
current President who has lied about his entire academic past and very
likely, even his birth nation? And on we go:
Millions of people ponder the dilemma of whether such a ruler could
not modify his convictions somewhat and relinquish his dream of conquering
the world. 107
107. This is especially true in the present day when the leaders and
parliaments of many other countries, unhappy with the Bush Neocon
administration, think elections in the US will set things right.
And now, the inevitable punchline, Israel:
It appears obvious, that religious systems have also succumbed to
ponerologenic processes and manifested the symptoms of a similar disease.
126
126. Not to mention the fact that the Neocon-Bush administration is
currently using Christian-Zionism as the ideology by which they mask
pathocracy.
The religious idea then becomes both a justification for using force and
sadism against non-believers, heretics and sorcerers...
127. As is the case of the US and Israel today.
As if Arab suicide bombers aren't psychopathic or the belief that
Jesus was a Palestinian or that there was an ancient Palestinian nation
doesn't fall into the same disease. Name a Palestinian national leader
before Arafat. Strangely, the editor betrays her own knowledge of the
broader truth in another footnote:
79. In Muslim cultures, where, if a woman is raped, it is the duty of
her male family members to kill her to wipe away the shame from the family
name. This act is pathological and criminal.
Whereas, the author does not mention Israel even once. As for
religion, he comments mostly on his own, Catholicism.
The Roman Empire contaminated the primary homogenous idea of
Christianity...This earthy foreign element infiltrated Christianity
depriving it of any healthy support for, and trust in, the necessity of
understanding human nature.
Political Ponerology has much to offer and should be read...without
the editor's personal footnotes. We hope a better edition is planned.
end
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Addenda ~
I had my own trouble with intrusive editors. I wrote a book called Return Of
The Giants:
http://www.lulu.com/content/541532
http://www.lulu.com/content/541370
It was honest journalism that followers of one Zechariah Sitchin wanted to
edit and publish. They phoned and wrote non-stop. However, my research and
reading of Sitchin established for me that he was mostly a fraud and I
refused all offers of publication. I imagine Lobaczewski had little choice
and took any offer he could get.
When reading the book, I wondered where I fit in. No, I don't fit the
psychopath mode. A closer description would be: Many people rebel against
psychopathic domination and search for some way of liberating themselves
from such an influence.
My new book, THE conPROMISED LAND can be ordered direct from the
publisher
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback_book/the_conpromised_land/6398777
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