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pathocracy; quite the contrary, they even embark upon a more

intensive life in the new society. These values progressively

cleanse themselves of patriotic buffoonery, and their principal

contents become more real in their eternal meaning. If forced

by necessity, the culture of the country in question is concealed

in private homes or disseminated via conspiracy; however, it

continues to survive and develop, creating values which could

not have arisen during happier times.

As a result, such a society’s opposition becomes ever more

enduring, ever more skillfully effected. It turns out that those

who believed they could impose such a system, trusting that it

would then function on the pathocracy’s autonomic mecha-

nisms, were overly optimistic. Imposed pathocracy always

remains an alien system to the extent that, if it should fall in the

country of its birth, its endurance within the subjugated nation

would only be a matter of weeks.

Artifically Infected Pathocracy

and Psychological Warfare

If a nucleus of this macrosocial pathological phenomenon

already exists in the world, always cloaking its true quality

behind an ideological mask of some political system, it irradi-

ates into other nations via coded news difficult for normal peo-

ple to understand, but easy to read for psychopathic individu-

als. “That’s the place for us, we now have a homeland where

our dreams about ruling those “others” can come true. We can

finally live in safety and prosperity.” The more powerful this

nucleus and the pathocratic nation, the wider the scope of its

inductive siren-call, heard by individuals whose nature is corre-

spondingly deviant, as though they were superheterodyne re-

ceivers naturally attuned to the same wave-length. Unfortu-

nately, what is being used today is real radio transmitters in the

hundreds of kilowatts, as well as loyal covert agents of pathoc-

racy networking our planet.

Whether directly or indirectly, i.e. by means of deviant

“agents”, this call of pathocracy, once appropriately “decked-

out”, reaches a significantly wider circle of people, including

both individuals with various psychological deviations and

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those who are frustrated, deprived of the opportunity to earn an

education and make use of their talents, physically or morally

injured, or simply primitive. The scope of the response to this

call may vary in proportion, but nowhere will it represent the

majority. Nonetheless, the home-bred spellbinders who arise

never take into account the fact that they are not able to enrap-

ture the majority. 103

Various nations’ different degrees of resistance to this activ-

ity depend upon many factors, such as prosperity and its equi-

table distribution, the society’s educational level (especially

that of the poorer classes), the proportion of participation of

individuals who are primitive or have various deviations, and

the current phase of the hysteroidal cycle. Some nations have

developed immunity as a result of more direct contact with the

phenomenon, something we shall discuss in the next chapter.

In countries just emerging from primeval conditions and

lacking political experience, an appropriately elaborated revo-

lutionary doctrine reaches its society’s autonomous substratum

and finds people who treat it like ideational reality. This also

occurs in nations where an over-egoistical ruling class defends

its position by means of naively moralizing doctrines, where

injustice is rampant, or where an intensification of the hysteria

level stifles the operation of common sense. People who have

become accustomed to revolutionary catchwords no longer

watch to make sure that whoever expounds such an ideology is

a truly sincere adherent, and not just someone using the mask

of ideology to conceal other motives derived from his deviant

personality.

103 Noticable in any country. In the present day, when the United States is

well on the way to becoming a full-blown pathocracy, and is thus the source

of the contamination, spellbinders for the deviant reality promote “American

style” economics and “culture,” and are even viewed by their fellow coun-

trymen as “America-ophiles”. Most people do not understand that the first

step to becoming part of the Global pathocracy that America is attempting to

impose on the world is to become part of the economic system as it is formu-

lated in America. A recent example of a country rejecting this maneuver is

France’s rejection of the European Constitution, a document focusing on the

neo-liberal transformation of the European economy along the lines of the

U.S. model. [Editor’s note.]

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In addition to these spellbinders, we can find another kind

of preacher of revolutionary ideas, one whose status is basi-

cally linked to the money he receives for his activities. How-

ever, it is unlikely that its ranks include people who could be

characterized as psychologically normal with no reservations

on the basis of the above-mentioned criteria. Their indifference

to the human suffering caused by their own activities is derived

from deficiencies in their perceived value of societal links or

their capacity to foresee the results of their activities.

In ponerogenic processes, moral deficiencies, intellectual

failings, and pathological factors intersect in a time-space

causative network giving rise to individual and national suffer-

ing.

Any war waged with psychological weapons costs only a

fraction as much as classical warfare, but it does have a cost,

especially when it is being waged simultaneously in many

countries throughout the world.

People acting in the name of pathocracy’s interests may ef-

fect their activities in parallel, under the banner of some tradi-

tional or other ideology, or even with the assistance of a con-

tradictory ideology battling the traditional one. In these latter

cases, the service must be performed by individuals whose

response to the call of the pathocracy is sufficiently vehement

so as to prevent the self-suggestive activities of the other ideol-

ogy they are using from weakening the links with their actual

hopes for power.

Whenever a society contains serious social problems, there

will also be some group of sensible people striving to improve

the social situation by means of energetic reforms, so as to

eliminate the cause of social tension. Others consider it their

duty to bring about a moral rejuvenation of society. Elimina-

tion of social injustice and reconstruction of the country’s mor-

als and civilization could deprive a pathocracy of any chance to

take over. Such reformers and moralists must therefore be con-

sistently neutralized by means of liberal or conservative posi-

tions and appropriately suggestive catchwords and paramoral-

isms; if necessary, the best among them has to be murdered.

Psychological warfare strategists must decide rather early

on which ideology would be most efficient in a particular coun-

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try because of its adaptability to said nation’s traditions. After

all, the appropriately adapted ideology must perform the func-

tion of a Trojan horse, transporting pathocracy into the country.

These various ideologies are then gradually conformed to one’s

own original master plan. Finally, off comes the mask.

At the right time, local partisans are organized and armed,

with recruits picked from dissatisfied localities; leadership is

provided by trained officers familiar with the secret idea as

well as the operative idea concocted for propagation in the

country in question. Assistance must then be given so groups of

conspirators adhering to the concocted ideology can stage a

coup d’état, whereupon an iron-fisted government is installed.

Once this has been brought about, the diversionary partisans’

activities are stymied – they are made out to be patsies - so that

the new authorities can take credit for bringing about internal

peace. Any hoodlum who cannot or will not submit to the new

decrees is “gently” invited before his former leader and shot in

the back of the head. This is the new reality.

This is how such governmental systems are born. A network

of pathological ponerogenical factors is already active, as is the

inspirational role of essential psychopathy. However, that does

not yet represent a complete picture of pathocracy. Many local

leaders and adherents persist in their original convictions

which, albeit radical, strike them as serving the good of a much

larger proportion of formerly abused persons, not just a few

percent of pathocrats and the interests of a would-be world

wide empire.

Local leaders continue to think along the lines of social

revolution, appealing to the political goals they truly believe in.

They demand that the “friendly power” furnish them not only

the promised assistance, but also a certain measure of auton-

omy they consider crucial. They are not sufficiently familiar

with the mysterious “us-and-them” dichotomy. At the same

time they are instructed and ordered to submit to the dictates of

unclear ambassadors whose meaning and purpose are hard to

understand. Frustration and doubt thus grow; their nature is

ideological, nationalistic, and practical.

Conflict progressively increases, especially when wide cir-

cles of society begin to doubt whether those people allegedly

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acting in the name of some great ideology do in fact believe in

it. Thanks to experience and contact with the pathocratic na-

tion, similarly wide circles simultaneously increase their prac-

tical knowledge about the reality and behavioral methods of

that system. Should such a semi-colony thus achieve too much

independence or even decide to defect, too much of this knowl-

edge could then reach the consciousness of normal man’s coun-

tries. This could represent a serious defeat for pathocracy.

Ever-increasing control is thus necessary until full pathoc-

racy can be achieved. Those leaders whom the central authori-

ties consider to be effectively transitional can be eliminated

unless they indicate a sufficient degree of submission. Geopo-

litical conditions are generally decisive in this area. That ex-

plains why it is easier for such leaders to survive on an outlying

island than in countries bordering the empire. Should such

leaders manage to maintain a larger degree of autonomy by

concealing their doubts, they might be able to take advantage

of their geopolitical position if the conditions are amenable.

During such a phase of crisis of trust, circumspect policy on

the part of normal man’s countries could still tip the scales in

favor of a structure which may be revolutionary and leftist, but

not pathocratic. However, this is not the only missing consid-

eration; another primary one is the lack of objective knowledge

about the phenomenon, something which would make such

policy possible. Emotional factors, coupled with a moralizing

interpretation of pathological phenomena, frequently play

much too great a part in political decision-making.

No full-fledged pathocracy can develop until the second up-

heaval and the purging of its transitional leadership, which

was insufficiently loyal thereto. This is the counterpart of a

showdown with the true adherents of the ideology within the

genesis of the original pathocracy, which can then develop, due

both to the appropriately imposed leaders and to the activity of

this phenomenon’s autonomous ponerogenic mechanisms.

After the initial governmental period, brutal, bloody, and

psychologically naive, such a pathocracy thereupon begins its

transformation into its dissimulative form, which has already

been described in discussing the genesis of the phenomenon

and the force-imposed pathocracy. During this period not even

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the most skillful outside policy can possibly undermine the

existence of such a system. The period of weakness is still to

come: when a mighty network of the society of normal people

is formed.

The above lapidary description of an infectious imposition

of pathocracy indicates that this process repeats all the phases

of independent ponerogenesis condensed in time and content.

Underneath the rulership of its incompetent administrative

predecessors, we can even discern a period of hyperactivity on

the part of schizoidal individuals mesmerized by the vision of

their own rule based on contempt for human nature, especially

if they are numerous within a given country. They do not real-

ize that pathocracy will never make their dreams come true; it

will rather shunt them into the shadows, since individuals with

whom we are already familiar will become the leaders.

A pathocracy thus generated will be more strongly im-

printed upon the subjugated country than one imposed by

force. At the same time, however, it maintains certain charac-

teristics of its divergent content, sometimes referred to as

“ideological” although it is in fact a derivate of the different

ethnological substratum upon which its scion was grafted.

Should conditions such as a nation’s numerical plentitude, wide