mbww your whole post comes across as laden with paramoralisms. I just can't fathom whether they are conscious and deliberate or unconscious and delusional.
...
If you are in any way serious about your participation in what is first and last a research forum (not just another feral social media outlet), you need to read the following and then post about what you have learned.
Paramoralisms: Ponerological Definition
Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes
Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
So I took a shot at Lobaczewski’s book to figure out what "paramoralism" is supposed to mean, and the closest I got is exploiting a tragic event/situation for personal or political gains by exaggerating the severity of that event, particularly exploiting human emotions through effusions of outrage or exaltation. Like attorneys do when they try to impress a jury, claiming compensation for the ‘emotional distress’ caused to their client. I like that term.
As for ‘ponerology’ it seems that Lobaczewski has ‘borrowed’ the term from theology, but the way he’s using it doesn’t have anything to do with religion. Originally the term is concerned with explaining the origin and existence of evil in the world, by figures such as Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
I was hopeful that I could find some theological insight, so I first jumped to the chapter on Religion: very simplistic - basically religion was just an instrument used by pathocrats/elites to exert their dominance, I was disappointed. The rest of the book is more of an assessment - from psychological perspective - of how ‘psychopatic’ characters and characteristics insinuate in society. If you've read George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ it is similar to a psychological essay along that novel. As a reference, I imagine Lobaczewski always had the Communist Party system in his sight. He lived in Poland during the Communist regime for most of his life. So I can see this book as a professional dissertation on the regime and part of the ‘dissident literature' of the era, which it’s OK, but hardly ‘scientific’ study.
‘Political ponerology’ is by association of the too words a cross-breed between a psychopathology and politology. He wanted the book to open a new field of study, but it never happened.
‘Ponerized’, ‘ponerization’ are terms used loosely more or less synonym to what we call today “brainwash’ and ‘influence’. There are several other such terms and ‘psycho’ and ‘path’ root abound...
‘Pathocracy’ which is synonym with ‘elite’ refers to a group of people who make decisions and exert control over the majority of the population. By analogy: the politburo in Communist Russia or the board of directors of a corp.
The book is heavy on psychopathology, for those interested, I was more interested in the religion/consciousness insights - I couldn’t find much.
Basically the book’s premise is that the same type of causes, symptoms and evolution that can be observed and characterize individual pathological cases can be applied at macro level, and as such ‘elites’ (i.e. those who come in position of power) start to behave as psychopaths, or become ponerized.
Again, from ‘Animal Farm’ story and the Communist regimes experience - I get the idea.
Corporation board model looks pretty ponerized to me, especially when you have a majority stake owner.
Social media is ponerized/sanitized, Google is ponerized (don’t be evil, duh!)
China is ponerized, Russia is ponerized, America is becoming ponerized - most ponerized?
Problem is everything can be ponerized this way, bad cops, good cops...even the store that doesn’t let you in if you don’t wear a mask is becoming ponerized.
It creates a divide between ‘normal people’ and those perceived as ‘ponerized’ or ‘psychopaths’.
When this is propagated at group mentality level - it becomes a serious problem: us vs them,
der anderen.
And that’s how adversity and division creep in society and from there is just a descent to barbarism.
As opposed to diversity and inclusion (even artificially instilled) which foster cohesion and lead the way to the future.
And that’s why Trump lost in America in AD 2021.
If you don’t at least try to understand that we are moving into a new era, and some preps for these changes that lie ahead of us are necessary, concepts of unity, acceptance and tolerance gaining more prominence and a certain neuroplasticity - you’re going to have a hard time dealing with these feelings of elites, control, programming, psyops, etc.
Nothing to fear but fear itself, remember that.
]
