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Political Ponerology 'The Book'

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BrightLight11:
     I searched the title of the subject and came up with only references. I'm only half way through the book. Put quite simply, I'm appalled and angry. I'm only reading 10 or so pages at a time so I can fully absorb what Andrew is saying. On a positive note I'm forever thankful that such time and effort has gone into the study and publication of this ever present evil. On the flip side of that notion I knew that IT was bad...just not this bad... :mad:

Megan:
Yes, from an ordinary perspective it looks pretty bad. (So ditch the ordinary perspective!) Other resources I have recently found helpful are George Simon's book Character Disturbance and the video Evidence of Revision. The latter kind of makes the situation come alive, although that may be because I was young when those things were happening and I believed the propaganda.

Laura:

--- Quote from: BrightLight11 on June 01, 2012, 06:49:21 PM ---     I searched the title of the subject and came up with only references. I'm only half way through the book. Put quite simply, I'm appalled and angry. I'm only reading 10 or so pages at a time so I can fully absorb what Andrew is saying. On a positive note I'm forever thankful that such time and effort has gone into the study and publication of this ever present evil. On the flip side of that notion I knew that IT was bad...just not this bad... :mad:

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I had the same reaction when I read the MS for the first time.  I could only read about that many pages at a time, too.  It was dense and so disturbing that I felt both relieved that there was an explanation, and horrified that the explanation was what it was.

And you are right... there should be a thread on it.

anka:
I was probably just as scared when reading the part of the Wave describing the Game Theory and its use during the last several decades. It fits with the PP book totally. No regrets, no respect, just a crazy scary functional tactics to win over everyone. Which seems to have no other ending then blood that will be also spilled between the psychopaths who assume it will be everybody else loosing it. They have no self-reflection in that way.

But no matter how hard the outcome of all that, the book helped me to calm down and loose a lot of non-sense thinking and getting involved in silly pub-politics talks. Distraction. Waste of time. What matters is The Work. And A.Lobaczewski suggested that we can and must start to prepare the ground for future without psychopaths in power now. He made me believe, with his strong commitment under unimaginable circumstances, that it can be done. Promotion of that book and information in it is one of the steps. The next ones will arise along the way.

voyageur:

--- Quote from: BrightLight11 ---    On a positive note I'm forever thankful that such time and effort has gone into the study and publication of this ever present evil. On the flip side of that notion I knew that IT was bad...just not this bad... :mad:

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Yes, a book of extreme importance to understanding the causation's of our past and present humanity's ill's. Without background like this, it is difficult to grasp how we arrived at where we are and it is damn scary knowledge, yet it answers much, and am grateful for his effort bringing it out of Poland. As hard as it seems to acknowledge in the face of it, Lobaczewski gave the world a great gift of awareness which needs to spread.

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