PONEROLOGY: a theory of evil. POLITICAL PONEROLOGY: a theory regarding the roots of evil in politics. VITAL INSIGHTS
Sociology. Geology. Psychology. Just about everyone knows those words.
But ponerology? I didn’t have a clue. So I looked it up. A theory or doctrine of evil. As for political ponerology, that’s a theory regarding the roots of evil in politics, or a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes.
And there’s an amazing book out with that title, Political Ponerology.
Here’s what is ultra core for me in that theory (from my quick look). The root of evil is lack of empathy.
What’s the prevalence of this lack? According to my overview of Political Ponerology, the no-empathy cohort comprises 6% of the population.
Core characteristics of this cohort. They like power. They’re good at getting it. They are fabulous at manipulation. And they have excellent radar to spot and connect with each other.
A core premise of the book. These people are at the root of evil in politics.
I see that what is presented in Political Ponerology is likely a crucial foundation for us to be able to move forward effectively.
No, it doesn’t let me know what to do.
But it establishes: the evil-doers are not poor misguided folk. They lack a core part of what most of us - the 94% - see as fundamental to being human: empathy.
They may show a fake surface facade of empathy to take people in - like a snake hypnotizing snake-charmer. (I know that’s not how it’s supposed to work.)
Lots of people thought Hitler was charming, including the British prime minister.
What next?
I don’t know.
I do know that first we must face that the evil is there, and what is key to the evil.
It’s drilled into us that basically all humans are the same, deep down. Not if Political Ponerology is right.
Once we realize we are dealing with evil, with no-empathy, my sense is we are much closer to being able to somehow deal with it.
So, I’m not sure at all, what next. I just have the sense that Political Ponerology, - shining the light on the 6% No-Empothy Cohort - gives us a key part of the puzzle.
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Here’s a link to the book, Political Ponerology - plus to a recording of the book - plus to more readings and videos.
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
by Andrew M. Lobaczewski (Author), Laura Knight-Jadczyk (Introduction)
https://www.amazon.ca/Political-Ponerology-Science-Adjusted-Purposes/dp/1897244258
The original manuscript of this book went into the furnace minutes before a secret police raid in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled by scientists working under impossible conditions of violence and repression, was sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged - the manuscript and all valuable data lost. In 1984, the third and final copy was written from memory by the last survivor of the original researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski. Zbigniew Brzezinski blocked its publication.
I shake my head in disbelief at the illusions of the authors - sending to the Vatican due to their belief that the Vatican would be a safe place to send the manuscript, instead of one being a central hub of the No-Empathy Cohort.
Chapter by chapter recording of Political Ponerology:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI9Bt_RPgX3zUlsIYIsdwcpYPt_jYhH7h
Chapter One:
Chapter Four:
More readings:
Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
https://lovefraud.com/political-ponerology-an-idea-for-our-times/
https://pakobserver.net/political-ponerology-understanding-pathocracies/
https://saferelationshipsmagazine.com/ponerology-101-political-psychopath
Open Secrets - Political Ponerology:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-3XWKA8dI8
Political Ponerology - Why Totalitarianism Never Lasts:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlZl0qIrNOo
Comments very welcome.
Posted February 15, 2023
It is, according to some psychologists that one will find the worst psychopaths in top political positions and as CEO's...damaged souls. Damaged from early childhood... with the unmet and unresolved childhood needs and damages forever driving them, who no matter how powerful or wealthy they are, will somehow always need more and more.
Imagine a wealthy family, like say the Rockerfeller family. .. The oldest one who first made money in oil at the start of last century, was the child of a snake oil salesman who lied and cheated his way through life, who knows what that mans childhood was like? His son who became an oil Baron, was a wily, greedy, amoral, unscrupulous businessman who didn't care on whom he trampled to get his own way, no empathy for others. Who knows how awful his childhood was like, being mothered by a single parent, the snake oils salesman had another wife or wives. The first wealthy Rockerfeller grew up in poverty. Whatever damage was done to him as a child, it must have been pretty awful to turn him into the monster he became, his reputation was rock bottom until he decided to become a philanthropist. Funding medical schools, but only as long as they taught chemical medicine, he didn't fund any schools that allowed Homeopathy, Herbalism or any of the many other curative methods that had long been in use. And now we have the monstrosity he built, the medical/pharma/chemical industry. The damage done to his soul in early childhood from what he experienced, was probably passed on via his parenting to his son, as the abused often, though not always, abuse their children or other peoples kids and so the evil is passed on. Imagine how much evil is generated when you have wealthy, dysfunctional families bringing up their kids the way they were brought up. No love, nannies, boarding school, authoritarian father, possibly sexually abused by either older boys, father, teacher or priest. Dependant on the genetics, the childs' reaction will vary one from the other, there are all kinds of ways of compensating for what one has experienced in childhood, psychopathy, sociopathy, narcissism, obsessive compulsive behaviour, paranoia, fear of heights. So many irrationalities and more rooted, mostly in early trauma.
I couldn't make friends with women, didn't trust them until I did therapy and dealt with the old childhood feelings of distrust in my mother, which I hadn't realised lay below the surface and coloured my life. Most of us carry un-needed baggage; some baggage appears to turn some people into psychopaths., and the less damaged in the world have to deal with these monsters.
So, they are psychopaths, lacking the capacity to feel, are hyper rational and narcissistic, only understanding the world through their own self-perception. This raises two questions. Were they were born this way, or were they nurtured into this psychopathy by elite institutions during their childhood years? For the betterment of society, do they need therapy or institutional isolation?