Got hope?

You do?  We can fix that.

This article is the most realistic summary of the current human situation that I've ever seen.

You might wonder how sociopaths are related to all this.  They are the root problem.

From the article:

Because psychopaths are almost completely in charge of nearly all governments, government response is for the most part corrupt – thinly veiled thefts of money, land, power, and anything else to be had, always "in the people's interest" but never achieving any positive result – at least, not for "the people."

And did you know about the hidden nuclear disaster of 1957?  I didn't either.  What else aren't they telling us?

More than we can possibly imagine.

Battle lines

The sociopath's original motivation.

There are two sides in this long-running battle.  One side vastly outnumbers the other, on the order of 1000 to 1 or better.  For the most part, this horde is completely unorganized with respect to waging battle.  In fact, they aren't even aware that there is a war going on.  They cannot identify the enemy because they don't realize there is an enemy.  They are ignorant, and they are losing.  Because they are oblivious to their gradual defeat, they are very content with the way things currently are.  Their primary concern is their immediate, individual comfort.  These are the "normals".

The other side, though vastly outnumbered, is cunning, clandestine, and well organized.  They are patient, analytical, and unconstrained by moral considerations.  They know their enemy well, having made a science out of studying and experimenting on the horde over the course of many generations.  They are informed, and they are winning.  They are fighting a quiet war with silent weapons against an enemy that they keep in the dark by design.  Their primary concern is their own survival through the control and parasitic exploitation of the "normals".  These are the "deviants", also known as sociopaths.

There are two philosophies at work in this battle.  One is the "ignorance is bliss" mindset, and the other is "the pursuit of truth" philosophy.

The majority of the horde embraces "ignorance is bliss".  Their blissful ignorance keeps them comfortable and content, and it insulates them from becoming aware of the harm they are causing to their continued existence.  Each individual is like a cog in a machine whose ultimate function, unknown to the individual cogs, is to prepare its own destruction.

Most sociopaths embrace "the pursuit of truth".  Their motivation however is power, as they see the possession of truth as a means of manipulating the horde.  For sociopaths, knowledge is power, so they keep the most important knowledge of truth to themselves and withhold it from the horde.  As a result, sociopaths have come to dominate all positions of power, either directly or indirectly.

There are among the horde of "normals" a small minority that reject "ignorance is bliss" and embrace "the pursuit of truth".  That they are a small minority is no coincidence.  For this group to pursue truth requires that they give up commonly held fundamentals like comfort, the certainty of their beliefs, and the approval of their peers.  Their motivation is not to accumulate power to control others, but to benefit the welfare of all people by revealing and ending the exploitation of the sociopaths.  Unfortunately, they are actively targeted by the sociopaths and routinely ridiculed by most "normals", which guarantees their small numbers.

The "ignorance is bliss" philosophy is actually a powerful control mechanism employed by the sociopaths to exploit the masses.  While on its surface it seems harmless, even desirable, the opposite is true.  Consider the following true story, from the family history of a good friend of mine.  Her grandfather was an American homesteader that farmed wheat.  One of the uses of the harvested wheat seed was to produce grain alcohol.  This was during the Prohibition period, so the alcohol had to be made clandestinely, often at night, and it became known as "moonshine".  Hard-working farmers were known to blissfully enjoy the fruits of their labor in this form.  It could also be sold on the black market for a lucrative profit.  As the farmer prospered, his health gradually took a turn for the worse, and a common way to find relief from ailments at that time was to purchase patent medicines, sometimes sold as "snake oil" or "cure-all".  Interestingly enough, the main ingredient of these patent medicines was often moonshine.  As his aches and pains seemed to multiply, the farmer needed more patent medicine to ease his suffering.  Even though the medicine did numb the pain and provide welcome relief, the farmer's condition continued to worsen until his limbs would no longer work.  He became paralyzed and bed-ridden, withered away to skin and bones, and died relatively young.

Unknown to the farmer, his demise was caused by his own "success".  Farmers typically used old car radiators in their homemade stills to condense the alcohol vapors into liquid moonshine.  Those radiators were constructed using lead solder, and the alcohol condensed in those radiators often accumulated harmful amounts of lead.  The farmer, in his blissful ignorance of ingesting moonshine and patent medicines, had unknowingly poisoned himself with a fatal dose of lead.  (Note:  the cause of death in 1922 was diagnosed as pernicious anemia and paralysis -- lead poisoning was not even imagined.)  The poor man's ignorance had indeed been blissful, for a while, but the unrecognized harm resulting from that ignorance had ultimately cut short his life.

Like the wheat farmer, most "normals" have no clue of their approaching demise, or that their own actions are leading them there.  The sociopaths want it that way, because once the population of the "normals" is drastically reduced, the survival and domination of the parasitic sociopaths is much more secure.

Wake up, sheeple.  You had better let go of your comforting illusions and start listening to those annoying truth-seeking "normals".  They are the only ones acting in your best interests.

Fiat reality

He's GOOD.
(Just like Obama.)

(The following excerpts are highlights from this discussion on political ponerology.)

The system that is in place is a pathological system that is at odds in a very profound way with the being or nature of most people.  People of conscience are being ruled by people with no conscience.  This fact is the primary injustice and is the basis for the other ills of society.

(As you read the following partial list of sociopathic traits (more here and here), think of how they apply to Hitler, Mussolini, Bush, Cheney, Blair, Obama, etc.)

• An obvious trait of sociopaths is the complete lack of conscience.  They lack any sense of remorse or empathy with others.  They cannot feel the suffering of others.


• Sociopaths are experts at using talk to charm and hypnotize their prey.


• Sociopaths are irresponsible.  Nothing is ever their fault.


• Another trait - and a very important one - is their ability to control the flow of information.


• Sociopaths are incapable of deep emotions.


• Sociopaths are experts in knowing how to push our buttons, to use our emotions against us.

Lobaczewski's contribution is his analysis of the way the different types of psychopathic types work together to form a system where people who are clinically pathological have the positions of power and rule over people who are psychologically normal.

Early in the book, Lobaczewski describes his experiences in university where he first encountered the phenomenon.  He went into the library to get some books on the question of psychopathy and found to his amazement that they had all been removed!  This fact demonstrates a self-awareness of their difference amongst at least some of them, and in the case of Poland under communism, of those in a position of power highly enough placed to get books removed from the university library.

One cannot really designate the issues that confront us today as "political", using the ordinary names of political ideologies because, as noted above, pathological deviants operate behind a complete mask, by deception and other psychological tricks which they practice with great cunning.

If, as Lobaczewski suggests, the essential psychopaths recognize each other and are able to work together to achieve common aims for their "para-specific species", as opposed to our interests, then we even have a mechanism for explaining a control structure that extends back in time, back into the mists when the first psychopaths set up the first pathocracy.  All of a sudden, theories which until now have been belittled as "conspiracy theories" can be looked at in a new light, with a new means of explaining how they could exist.  This, I think, is a very important area for further research.

We won't really know what human nature is until the pathocratic influence is removed and a truly human society, that is, one led by and with values in accordance with our highest nature, our conscience, is able to be founded.

The psychopath doesn't lie in the way a normal person lies.  Psychopathic lying is not mere deception, it is "creating reality" so that it conforms to the psychopath's wants.

Let me try to explain.  The psychopathic reality exists by fiat:  they declare things to be so and expect others to accept them.  To them, these declarations represent what reality should be, or at least what they think others should accept as reality.  "If I say it is so, why shouldn't people believe me?"  Just as intelligence is merely an instrument used by the psychopath to fulfill his whims, "facts" are instruments to be used and abused in the same pursuit.

Experience has shown no matter what we say, no matter what we point out, no matter how much evidence is given, it has no meaning for psychopaths.  They have one goal:  to fool us into classifying them as normal humans so they can continue to deceive us, control us and use us for their own power and glory because that is what makes them feel good.

How do you say "no" when the media is completely controlled by other pathocrats?  You can take to the streets, as millions of people did before the invasion of Iraq, but that doesn't matter because the pathocratic political leaders really don't care what people think.  They could care less if there are thousands or millions of people protesting their policies - they have the military and scary weapons at their disposal.  The media, then, distorted the message of those who dissented and painted them as traitors.  They are still painted as traitors four years on and after it has become plain as day that the war was wrong and that Bush and company lied on every point.

The majority of people have had their consciences crushed, have accepted so many compromises, that they are incapable of thinking or feeling things correctly.  They believe that there are countless numbers of Islamic fundamentalists ready to bomb their homes and schools, no matter how absurd that idea really is, and in spite of the fact that the majority of such bombings are false flag operations.  The well established fact that intelligence agencies carry out bombings and then blame their opponents - it is impossible to argue that this type of thing is not regular practice - becomes less believable to people in the United States, the UK, and elsewhere, than the fairy tale that there are hundreds of Islamic fundamentalists ready to blow themselves up in the name of Allah!

Think back to what Lobaczewski writes about the befuddled thinking that occurs when someone is in the presence of a psychopath.  Via the media, that befuddlement spreads beyond immediate personal contact and becomes a plague on society as a whole.  Society itself becomes diseased.

Those individuals who think that change can be effected via legal or political processes fail to understand that both the law and politics, by and large, are created and controlled by pathological types, and are set up for their benefit, not the benefit of the ordinary human being.  So it is that law and politics are insufficient avenues for counteracting a pathological society that has been created by the efforts and influence of deviants.

So, I'll say it again - and keep saying it - until the knowledge and awareness of pathological human beings is given the attention it deserves and becomes part of the general knowledge of all human beings, there is no way that things can be changed in any way that is effective and long-lasting.  That is the first order of business and if half the people agitating for Truth or stopping the war or Bush or whatever would focus their efforts, time and money on exposing psychopathy, we might get somewhere.

When you are dealing with psychopaths, you are dealing with the criminal mind and when such minds are in positions of absolute power - as they are today - there is nothing to restrain them - and nothing will restrain them, you can take that to the bank.

We need to learn how to say no to the manipulations.  That means we need to learn the ways we are manipulated and refuse to do the dance.

And so it is that identifying the psychopath, ceasing our interaction with them, cutting them off from our society, making ourselves unavailable to them as "food" or objects to be conned and used, is the single most effective strategy that we can play.

Why I blog

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding,
I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
-- Helen Keller

My purpose for blogging at all on the Internet is to document my learning processes.  I do this for many reasons, some less than noble, and some quite noble.  A less than noble reason is that I would like something of me to be left behind when I am gone (vanity).  A more noble reason is to provide a public service, so that others can know what I know without putting so much time and effort into the journey.  But then, time and effort may be an essential part of what gives knowledge its value.  But then again, we don't want to have to continually reinvent the wheel.

I certainly don't have any illusions that my knowledge is superior in some way, given the ignorance that I have paved over to create the road that has led me here.  "Here" may not be a worthy destination either, but life is not really about the destination.  It is about the journey.  I am building a road to make the journey easier for those that follow, if any should follow.  If no one follows, I can at least take some pride in the quality of the road I built.

I mention this because my most recent learning experience is a discovery of startling clarification.  It is somewhat equivalent to the Unified Field Theory that Einstein searched for -- a theory that connects the characteristics of the known universe together.  Such a grand theory may be too much to hope for, but the beauty of other illuminating discoveries, like the relationship between electricity and magnetism, whets our appetite to search for even stronger interconnectedness.

I now see the connections between evil and empathy, conspiracies and disbelief, secret societies and denial, lies and manipulation, deception and emotion, politics and poison, and conscience and inhumanity.  All are tied together by the competition between two kinds of human behavior:  sociopathic and "normal".  The sociopaths are a small percentage of humanity but dominate in positions of control due to their defective (antisocial) characteristics.  In other words, the socially defective are in charge of shaping our society.  "Normal" people are putty in their hands due to the ignorance normal people have of sociopathy.  Ignorance may appear to be bliss, but the new knowledge I have gained makes it clear why ignorance leads to slavery in this lopsided environment, where sociopaths work cunningly to keep the normal people ignorant of the true masters.

The importance of this new knowledge is such that I want to spend some time emphasizing it.  The understanding it brings feels like the discovery Helen Keller probably experienced with her teacher Annie Sullivan.  A door was opened, and a stream of pure meaning brought light into a world of darkness.  A person blind to the outside world became an expert observer of it, seeing more precisely than those with working eyes.  We need that kind of vision if we are to reach our potential.

I want us to see.

Criminals rule

Retired in luxury.

What do we do with our worst criminals?  We make them our leaders.

Why would we do something that stupid?  That's like making a con-man your financial adviser.  The end result is that you become the victim of a crime.  Obviously, we don't knowingly make criminals our leaders.  We are tricked into doing it -- by the criminals.  How did this happen?

It begins with abnormal human behavior.  There is a small percentage of the world population that is socially "defective".  People with these defects are called sociopaths.  Primarily, they lack a sense of empathy, the ability to sympathize with the feelings of other individuals.  As a result, they are callous, conniving, manipulative, egotistical, and selfish human beings.  Because their world centers around themselves, a rather confining focus, they are often very bored individuals in need of stimulation and satisfaction.  Normal people find a great deal of satisfaction constructing and maintaining social ties with others, but sociopaths do not.  As a means of staving off boredom, sociopaths often develop an all-consuming substitute for this normal social interaction.  Rather than pursuing meaningful social links, they focus on getting what they want.  Sociopaths find a great deal of satisfaction in lying, scheming, and manipulating others to get whatever it is they desire.  In this way, everything becomes a game for them, and their goal is to win the game.  Winning becomes everything.  And a large part of winning is disguising what you are doing so that the people around you don't realize what you are doing.  Sociopaths are very skilled at deceiving others into believing that they (the sociopaths) are normal people.

Now, use your thinking skills here a bit.  What kind of occupations would sociopaths find to be a good fit for their personality traits?  A performer, like a star athlete or a movie star?  Yes, but think bigger.  How about a lawyer?  Yes indeed, many sociopaths follow this career path, but they usually want more, so think bigger again.  How about the coporate head of a large business conglomerate?  Yes, sociopaths are well represented here.  But there is one occupation where sociopaths can really shine, and where they can fully exercise all of their unique "defective" skills -- they become politicians.  Not surprisingly, many politicians have law degrees or experience directing large business concerns.

So, just as iron filings are attracted to a magnet and tend to congregate around a magnet's pole, sociopaths are attracted to politics and tend to congregate in our leadership positions.  Yes, at the highest levels of power in most nations are sociopaths.  Though they falsely present themselves as working for the common good, they are really working to get what they want, to win the game, to make the deals that enrich their lives but sell out the ordinary and unaware masses these sociopaths claim to represent.

By the way, a very interesting thing happens to many "normal" individuals who find themselves in politics or leadership positions.  They tend to adopt the very traits that define sociopaths!  Common wisdom recognizes this tendency with the old saying that "power corrupts -- absolute power corrupts absolutely."  But actual studies confirm that this popular wisdom is not just whistling Dixie.  The more power normal individuals have, the more sociopathic traits they display!

So, the bad news is that our system nearly guarantees that we are led by sociopaths.  They are like parasites feeding on us, making us sickly and weak while they grow strong and powerful (reminds me of Congress).  But that's not the worst of it.  The mind-blowing kicker is that there are no real safeguards in place to prevent sociopaths from attaining or holding office!  None of our leaders undergo any psychological testing as a requirement to hold office!  We employ no effective screening to identify and remove from office a sociopath.  Essentially, we give abnormal people with criminal intent the reigns of power and let them quietly victimize us until they either retire in luxury or are accidentally caught red-handed in some blatant crime that they can't successfully whitewash (like President "Tricky Dick" Nixon, who resigned rather than face trial, and we let him get away!).

Is there something wrong with us "normal" people for allowing this insanity?  Or are we just idiots?

Political Ponerology
It's a science you'd better know.
Author interview.
Publisher interview.

 

George H. W. Bush,
classic, successful sociopath.