The psychopath is a person that can lie straight to one's face without any twinge or pang of conscience that people normally feel

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The psychopath is a person that can lie straight to one's face without any

twinge or pang of conscience that people normally feel

 

Dear All,

 

In the appended excerpt, it describes the psychopath as a person that can lie

straight to one's face, and not feel the usual twinge or pang of conscience that

people would normally feel. It seems that while psychopaths do not have these

feelings of conscience, they are able to sway and deceive many people due to

that very fact - as this article will show. As we are on the subject of 'Sahaj

Neros' (with regard to Jagbir's recent post), it is timely that, today, i should

come across this expose of the psychopathic character.

 

regards to all,

 

violet

 

 

 

[The following is extracted from two articles: Twilight of the Psychopaths, by

Dr. Kevin Barrett and The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade by Silvia Cattori.

Both articles are recommended. Both articles reference the book Political

Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes, by

Andrzej Lobaczewski. Cattori's article is longer and includes an interview with

the book's editors, Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Henry See.]

 

I make the effort to share this information because it gives me, at last, a

plausible answer to a long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much

intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so much war, suffering and

injustice? It doesn't seem to matter what creative plan, ideology, religion, or

philosophy great minds come up with, nothing seems to improve our lot. Since the

dawn of civilization, this pattern repeats itself over and over again.

 

The answer is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of

psychopaths. All civilizations, our own included, have been built on slavery and

mass murder. Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development

of civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, cheat, steal,

torture, manipulate, and generally inflict great suffering on other humans

without feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own sense of security

through domination. The inventor of civilization - the first tribal chieftain

who successfully brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers - was almost

certainly a genetic psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have

enjoyed a significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power

in civilizational hierarchies - especially military hierarchies.

 

Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of

psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as their

power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We

are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld - the overlapping criminal

syndicates that lurk above ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks

below it.

 

During the past fifty years, psychopaths have gained almost absolute control of

all the branches of government. You can notice this if you observe carefully

that no matter what illegal thing a modern politician does, no one will really

take him to task. All of the so called scandals that have come up, any one of

which would have taken down an authentic administration, are just farces played

out for the public, to distract them, to make them think that the democracy is

still working.

 

One of the main factors to consider in terms of how a society can be taken over

by a group of pathological deviants is that the psychopaths' only limitation is

the participation of susceptible individuals within that given society.

Lobaczewski gives an average figure for the most active deviants of

approximately 6% of a given population. (1% essential psychopaths and up to 5%

other psychopathies and characteropathies.) The essential psychopath is at the

center of the web. The others form the first tier of the psychopath's control

system.

 

The next tier of such a system is composed of individuals who were born normal,

but are either already warped by long-term exposure to psychopathic material via

familial or social influences, or who, through psychic weakness have chosen to

meet the demands of psychopathy for their own selfish ends. Numerically,

according to Lobaczewski, this group is about 12% of a given population under

normal conditions.

 

So approximately 18% of any given population is active in the creation and

imposition of a Pathocracy. The 6% group constitutes the Pathocratic nobility

and the 12% group forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the

most advantageous.

 

When you understand the true nature of psychopathic influence, that it is

conscienceless, emotionless, selfish, cold and calculating, and devoid of any

moral or ethical standards, you are horrified, but at the same time everything

suddenly begins to makes sense. Our society is ever more soulless because the

people who lead it and who set the example are soulless - they literally have no

conscience.

 

In his book Political Ponerology, Andrej Lobaczewski explains that clinical

psychopaths enjoy advantages even in non-violent competitions to climb the ranks

of social hierarchies. Because they can lie without remorse (and without the

telltale physiological stress that is measured by lie detector tests),

psychopaths can always say whatever is necessary to get what they want. In

court, for example, psychopaths can tell extreme bald-faced lies in a plausible

manner, while their sane opponents are handicapped by an emotional

predisposition to remain within hailing distance of the truth. Too often, the

judge or jury imagines that the truth must be somewhere in the middle, and then

issues decisions that benefit the psychopath. As with judges and juries, so too

with those charged with decisions concerning who to promote and who not to

promote in corporate, military and governmental hierarchies. The result is that

all hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths. Since psychopaths

have no limitations on what they can or will do to get to the top, the ones in

charge are generally pathological. It is not power that corrupts, it is that

corrupt individuals seek power.

 

How can we distinguish between psychopaths and healthy people? What is the

portrait of a true psychopath?

 

Such a dangerous question has almost never been successfully asked. The reason

is that we mistakenly confuse healthy for normal. Human psychological diversity

is the health of our race. There is no normal because healthy humans

continuously evolve beyond all normalizing standards. The terrorism of searching

through hierarchies for anyone deviating from normal is no different from witch

hunts or Inquisitions. You must remember that hierarchies thrive on such low

dramas, torturing victims until they confess to evil beliefs. Not so long ago

the church and state ongoingly acquired significant income and property through

witch hunts and Inquisitions. This continued for over two hundred and fifty

years. Ten generations of Europeans understood pogrom as normal life. Let us not

return to that nightmare. Testing for normal is guaranteed to backfire in our

face. There is no normal. But there is conscience.

 

We have very little empirical evidence to support the idea that true psychopathy

is the result of an abused childhood, and much empirical evidence to support

that it is genetic. The neurobiological model offers us the greatest hope of

being able to identify even the most devious psychopath. Other recent studies

lead to similar results and conclusions: that psychopaths have great difficulty

processing verbal and nonverbal affective (emotional) material, that they tend

to confuse the emotional significance of events, and most importantly, that

these deficits show up in brain scans! A missing internal connection between the

feeling heart and the thinking brain is detectable.

 

Psychopaths are incapable of authentic deep emotions. In fact, when Robert Hare,

a Canadian psychologist who spent his career studying psychopathy, did brain

scans on psychopaths while showing them two sets of words, one set of neutral

words with no emotional associations and a second set with emotionally charged

words, while different areas of the brain lit up in the non-psychopathic control

group, in the psychopaths, both sets were processed in the same area of the

brain, the area that deals with language. They did not have an emotional

reaction until they intellectually concluded that it would be better if they had

one, and then they whipped up an emotional response just for show.

 

The simplest, clearest and truest portrait of the psychopath is given in the

titles of three seminal works on the subject: Without Conscience by Robert Hare,

The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley, and Snakes in Suits by Robert Hare and

Paul Babiak. A psychopath is exactly that: conscienceless. The most important

thing to remember is that this lack of conscience is hidden from view behind a

mask of normality that is often so convincing that even experts are deceived. As

a result, psychopaths become the Snakes in Suits that control our world.

 

Psychopaths lack a sense of remorse or empathy with others. They can be

extremely charming and are experts at using talk to charm and hypnotize their

prey. They are also irresponsible. Nothing is ever their fault; someone else or

the world at large is always to blame for all of their problems or their

mistakes. Martha Stout, in her book The Sociopath Next Door, identifies what she

calls the pity ploy. Psychopaths use pity to manipulate. They convince you to

give them one more chance, and to not tell anyone about what they have done. So

another trait - and a very important one - is their ability to control the flow

of information.

 

They also seem to have little real conception of past or future, living entirely

for their immediate needs and desires. Because of the barren quality of their

inner life, they are often seeking new thrills, anything from feeling the power

of manipulating others to engaging in illegal activities simply for the rush of

adrenaline.

 

Another trait of the psychopath is what Lobaczewski calls their special

psychological knowledge of normal people. They have studied us. They know us

better than we know ourselves. They are experts in knowing how to push our

buttons, to use our emotions against us. But beyond that, they even seem to have

some sort of hypnotic power over us. When we begin to get caught up in the web

of the psychopath, our ability to think deteriorates, gets muddied. They seem to

cast some sort of spell over us. It is only later when we are no longer in their

presence, out of their spell, that the clarity of thought returns and we find

ourselves wondering how it was that we were unable to respond or counter what

they were doing.

 

Psychopaths learn to recognize each other in a crowd as early as childhood, and

they develop an awareness of the existence of other individuals similar to

themselves. They also become conscious of being of a different world from the

majority of other people surrounding them. They view us from a certain distance.

 

Think about the ramifications of this statement: Psychopaths are, to some

extent, self-aware as a group even in childhood! Recognizing their fundamental

difference from the rest of humanity, their allegiance would be to others of

their kind, that is, to other psychopaths.

 

Their own twisted sense of honor compels them to cheat and revile

non-psychopaths and their values. In contradiction to the ideals of normal

people, psychopaths feel breaking promises and agreements is normal behavior.

 

Not only do they covet possessions and power and feel they have the right to

them just because they exist and can take them, but they gain special pleasure

in usurping and taking from others; what they can plagiarize, swindle, and

extort are fruits far sweeter than those they can earn through honest labor.

They also learn very early how their personalities can have traumatizing effects

on the personalities of non-psychopaths, and how to take advantage of this root

of terror for purposes of achieving their goals.

 

So now, imagine how human beings who are totally in the dark about the presence

of psychopaths can be easily deceived and manipulated by these individuals,

gaining power in different countries, pretending to be loyal to the local

populations while at the same time playing up obvious and easily discernable

physical differences between groups (such as race, skin color, religion, etc).

Psychologically normal humans would be set against one another on the basis of

unimportant differences (think of Rwanda 1994, think of Israelis and

Palestinians) while the deviants in power, with a fundamental difference from

the rest of us, a lack of conscience, an inability to feel for another human

being, reaped the benefits and pulled the strings.

 

We are seeing the final desperate power-grab or endgame (Alex Jones) of brutal,

cunning gangs of CIA drug-runners and President-killers; money-laundering

international bankers and their hit-men - economic and otherwise; corrupt

military contractors and gung-ho generals; corporate predators and their

political enablers; brainwashers and mind-rapists euphemistically known as

psy-ops and PR specialists - in short, the whole crew of certifiable psychopaths

running our so-called civilization. And they are running scared.

 

Why does the Pathocracy fear losing its control? Because it is threatened by the

spread of knowledge. The greatest fear of any psychopath is of being found out.

 

Psychopaths go through life knowing that they are completely different from

other people. Deep down they know something is missing in them. They quickly

learn to hide their lack of empathy, while carefully studying others' emotions

so as to mimic normalcy while cold-bloodedly manipulating the normals.

 

Today, thanks to new information technologies, we are on the brink of unmasking

the psychopaths and building a civilization of, by and for the healthy human

being - a civilization without war, a civilization based on truth, a

civilization in which the saintly few rather than the diabolical few would

gravitate to positions of power. We already have the knowledge necessary to

diagnose psychopathic personalities and keep them out of power. We have the

knowledge necessary to dismantle the institutions in which psychopaths

especially flourish - militaries, intelligence agencies, large corporations, and

secret societies. We simply need to disseminate this knowledge, and the will to

use it, as widely and as quickly as possible.

 

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. If half the people agitating for truth or stopping the war or

saving the earth would focus their efforts, time and money on exposing

psychopathy, we might get somewhere.

 

One might ask if the weak point of our society has been our tolerance of

psychopathic behavior? Our disbelief that someone could seem like an intelligent

leader and still be acting deceptively on their own behalf without conscience?

Or is it merely ignorance?

 

If the general voting public is not aware that there exists a category of people

we sometimes perceive as almost human, who look like us, who work with us, who

are found in every race, every culture, speaking every language, but who are

lacking conscience, how can the general public take care to block them from

taking over the hierarchies? General ignorance of psychopathology may prove to

be the downfall of civilization. We stand by like grazing sheep as

political/corporate elites throw armies of our innocent sons and daughters

against fabricated enemies as a way of generating trillions in profits, vying

against each other for pathological hegemony.

 

Nearly everyone who has been part of an organization working for social change

has probably seen the same dynamic play out: The good and sincere work of many

can be destroyed by the actions of one person. That doesn't bode well for

bringing some sort of justice to the planet! In fact, if psychopaths dominate

political hierarchies, is it any wonder that peaceful demonstrations have zero

impact on the outcome of political decisions? Perhaps it is time to choose

something other than massive, distant hierarchies as a way of governing

ourselves?

 

So many efforts to provide essays, research reports, exposés and books to

leaders so they might take the new information to heart and change their

behavior have come to naught. For example, in the final paragraph of his revised

edition of the book, The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg writes:

 

I still believe that if the people of the world can be helped to understand the

situation we are in, the options available, and the consequences of the path we

are currently on, then it is at least possible that they can be persuaded to

undertake the considerable effort and sacrifice that will be entailed in a

peaceful transition to a sustainable, locally based, decentralized, low-energy,

resource-conserving social regime. But inspired leadership will be required.

 

And that is the just-murdered fantasy. There are no inspired leaders anymore.

And in hierarchical structures there can't be. Assuming that you can elect men

or women to office who will see reason and the light of day, and who will change

and learn and grow, make compassionate decisions and take conscientious

actions... is a foolish, childish dream. Continuing to dream it simply plays

into psychopathic agendas.

 

Only when the 75% of humanity with a healthy conscience come to understand that

we have a natural predator, a group of people who live amongst us, viewing us as

powerless victims to be freely fed upon for achieving their inhuman ends, only

then will we take the fierce and immediate actions needed to defend what is

preciously human. Psychological deviants have to be removed from any position of

power over people of conscience, period. People must be made aware that such

individuals exist and must learn how to spot them and their manipulations. The

hard part is that one must also struggle against those tendencies to mercy and

kindness in oneself in order not to become prey.

 

The real problem is that the knowledge of psychopathy and how psychopaths rule

the world has been effectively hidden. People do not have the adequate, nuanced

knowledge they need to really make a change from the bottom up. Again and again,

throughout history it has been meet the new boss, same as the old boss. If there

is any work that is deserving of full time efforts and devotion for the sake of

helping humanity in this present dark time, it is the study of psychopathy and

the propagation of this information as far and wide and fast as possible.

 

There are only two things that can bring a psychopath under submission:

 

1. A bigger psychopath.

 

2. The non-violent, absolute refusal to submit to psychopathic controls no

matter the consequences (non-violent noncompliance).

 

Clinton Callahan, originator of Possibility Management, author of Radiant Joy

Brilliant Love, founder of Callahan Academy.