This is why such groups USE other groups to achieve their goals. They infiltrate, find weak individuals to target, begin the process of moral degeneration, etc. That is to say, just because a group operates under the banner of "communism" or "socialism" or "democracy" or "conservatism" or "republicanism", doesn't mean that, in practice, their functions are anything close to the original ideology. As we can see in the present day, the republican party (and the democrats as well, they are just pretending to be different) have been taken over by what amounts to Nazis. These Nazis use the ideology of the political parties to motivate large masses of people who still believe that the rulership of the party is aligned with the original ideology.Lobaczewski said:We shall give the name "ponerogenic association" to any group of people characterized by ponerogenic processes of above-average social intensity, wherein the carriers of various pathological factors function as inspirers, spellbinders, and leaders, and where a proper pathological social structure generates.
Smaller, less permanent associations may be called "groups" or "unions".
Such an association gives birth to evil which hurts other people as well as its own members. We could list various names ascribed to such organizations by linguistic tradition: gangs, criminal mobs, mafias, cliques, and coteries, which cunningly avoid collision with the law while seeking to gain their own advantage. Such unions frequently aspire to political power in order to impose their expedient legislation upon societies in the name of a suitably prepared ideology, deriving advantages in the form of disproportionate prosperity and the satisfaction of their craving for power.
A description and classification of such associations with a view of their numbers, goals, officially promulgated ideologies, and internal organizations would of course be scientifically valuable. Such a description, effected by a perceptive observer, could help a ponerologist determine some of the properties of such unions, which cannot be determined by means of natural conceptual language.
A description of this kind, however, ought not to cloak the more factual phenomena and psychological dependencies operating within these unions. Failure to heed this warning can easily cause such a sociological description to indicate properties which are of secondary importance, or even made "for show" to impress the uninitiated, thereby overshadowing the actual phenomena which decide the quality, role, and fate of the union. Particularly if such a description is colorful literature, it can furnish merely illusory or ersatz knowledge, thus rendering a naturalistic perception and causative comprehension of phenomena more difficult.
One phenomenon all ponerogenic groups and associations have in common is the fact that their members lose (or have already lost) the capacity to perceive pathological individuals as such, interpreting their behavior in a fascinated, heroic, or melodramatic ways. The opinions, ideas, and judgments of people carrying various psychological deficits are endowed with an importance at least equal to that of outstanding individuals among normal people.
The atrophy of natural critical faculties with respect to pathological individuals becomes an opening to their activities, and, at the same time, a criterion for recognizing the association in concern as ponerogenic. Let us call this the first criterion of ponerogenesis.
Another phenomenon all ponerogenic associations have in common is their statistically high concentration of individuals with various psychological anomalies. Their qualitative composition is crucially important in the formation of the entire union's character, activities, development, or extinction.
Groups dominated by various kinds of characteropathic individuals will develop relatively primitive activities, proving rather easy for a society of normal people to break. However, things are quite different when such unions are inspired by psychopathic individuals. [...]
Two basic types of the above-mentioned unions should be differentiated: Primary ponerogenic and secondary ponerogenic. Let us describe as primarily ponerogenic a union whose abnormal members were active from the very beginning, playing the role of crystallizing catalysts as early as the process of creation of the group occurred. We shall call secondarily ponerogenic a union which was founded in the name of some idea with an independent social meaning, generally comprehensible within the categories of the natural world view, but which later succumbed to a certain moral degeneration. This in turn opened the door to infection and activation of the pathological factors within, and later to a ponerization of the group as a whole, or often of its fraction.
From the very outset, a primarily ponerogenic union is a foreign body within the organism of society, its character colliding with the moral values held or respected by the majority. The activities of such groups provoke opposition and disgust and are considered immoral; as a rule, therefore, such groups do not spread large, nor do they metastasize into numerous unions; they finally lose their battle with society.
That is why Sartre and Judy Andreas and others decrying the "name calling" in the 911 Truth Movement are either agents themselves or woefully naive and will never survive the nazification/ponerization of the movement. The so-called "commonsense" that they subscribe to is NO DEFENSE against psychological deviants! But such "commonsensical" sayings and motifs will be brought up and flung around with great abandon by agents seeking to put the more critical members of the public back to sleep.Lobaczewski said:In order to have a chance to develop into a large ponerogenic association, however, it suffices that some human organization, characterized by social or political goals and an ideology with some creative value, be accepted by a larger number of normal people before it succumbs to a process of ponerogenic malignancy. The primary tradition and ideological values of such a society may then, for a long time, protect a union which has succumbed to the ponerization process from the awareness of society, especially its less critical components.
When the ponerogenic process touches such a human organization, which originally emerged and acted in the name of political or social goals, and whose causes were conditioned in history and the social situation, the original group's primary values will nourish and protect such a union, in spite of the fact that those primary values succumb to characteristic degeneration, the practical function becoming completely different from the primary one, because the names and symbols are retained.
This is where the weaknesses of individual and social "common sense" are revealed.
An example would be a paranoid character who believes himself to be a Robin Hood type character with a "mission" to "rob from the rich and give to the poor." This can easily transform to "rob from anyone to gain for the self" under the cover of "social injustice against us makes it right."Lobaczewski said:Ponerogenic unions of the primary variety are mainly of interest to criminology; our main concern will be associations that succumb to a secondary process of poneric malignancy. First, however, let us sketch a few properties of such associations which have already surrendered to this process.
Within each ponerogenic union, a psychological structure is created which can be considered a counterpart or caricature of the normal structure of society or a normal societal organization. In a normal social organization, individuals with various psychological strengths and weaknesses complement each other's talents and characteristics. This structure is subjected to diachronic modification with regard to changes in the character of the association as whole. The same is true of a ponerogenic union. Individuals with various psychological aberrations also complement each other's talents and characteristics.
The earlier phase of a ponerogenic union's activity is usually dominated by characteropathic, particularly paranoid, individuals, who often play an inspirational or spellbinding role in the ponerization process. Recall here the power of the paranoid characteropath lies in the fact that they easily enslave less critical minds, e.g. people with other kinds of psychological deficiencies, or who have been victims of individuals with character disorders, and, in particular, a large segment of young people.
At this point in time, the union still exhibits certain romantic features and is not yet characterized by excessively brutal behavior. Soon, however, the more normal members are pushed into fringe functions and are excluded from organizational secrets; some of them thereupon leave such a union.
Lobaczewski said:Individuals with inherited deviations then progressively take over the inspirational and leadership positions. The role of essential psychopaths gradually grows, although they like to remain ostensibly in the shadows (e.g. directing small groups), setting the pace as an
Laura said:Lobaczewski said:The Roman Empire, including its legal system and paucity of psychological concepts, similarly contaminated the primary homogeneous idea of Christianity. Christianity had to adapt to coexistence with a social system wherein "dura lex sed lex" , rather than an understanding of human beings, decided a person's fate; this then led to the corruption of attempting to reach the goals of the "Kingdom of God" by means of Roman imperialistic methods.
...The example of the Roman legal system vis a vis early Christianity mentioned above, is a case in point. The Roman imperial and legal civilization was overly attached to matter and law, and created a legal system that was too rigid to accommodate any real aspects of psychological and spiritual life. This "earthy" foreign element infiltrated Christianity resulting in the Catholic church adopting Imperial strategies to enforce its system on others by violence.
Dimitris said:I wouldn't bother to post a single word on this forum if my 'simplistic and doctrinaire paramoralisms' didn't take into account 'the existence of deviant psychopathologies' already taking a heavy toll on its existing membership. But in my 'paramoralistic' fervour, I saw it as my duty to help what remained to be rescued in this deviant vortex. Obviously, there wasn't much left after 14 years and a 'small fortune spent on medical bills to deal with the stress'.Laura said:This is the present danger to the 911 Truth Movement and Alternative Media. Such claims as those made by Sartre, Judy Andreas, Dimitris, etc, that weeding out the cointelpro factors amounts to "infighting" and "backstabbing" and "petty differences" and so on, amount to nothing more that simplistic and doctrinaire concepts that do not take into account the complexity of human nature and most especially the existence of deviant psychopathologies... What we can know is that taking their simplistic and doctrinaire paramoralisms as truth is setting a dangerous example.
Time to give up and wish you all, a Happy (orthodox) Easter!
I always got an uncomfortable feeling from this person. Initially, I thought he just had a personal agenda. The feeling increased when he became persistent in insisting on the importance Cryptocratic variables. When the Rense scratch occured it felt like it went way beyond his own personality.Laura said:I guess they've invested a lot of money in him...
I would just like to add, that I have realised how big a task it is to put up a public forum like this one and how much responsibility goes with that. There has been no room for the lies, smears and paramoralism to stand unanswered. This requires a tremendous amount of dedication, but also knowledge on the subject. The Forum and the people behind the forum has shown how to put that Knowledge into action for the benefit of all willing to learn. I am not aware of anything like it anywhere. Thanks.Esoquest said:Well, now it is being challenged, and in the specified domain where information is the means to power and not physical violence (at least not overtly). So it is a challenge to confront ponerization, and to learn to be able to confront it effectively in this domain of information exchange, so that it can be correspondingly confronted in the world beyond the Internet.
Effectively confronting ponerization is one of the purposes of networking IMO. Here we are watching that confrontation, during its transition period when it is most vulnerable (although very well attempting to conceal the fact), in action.
Eeyew What a messy and smelly can of worms this all is!Laura said:"Pamela Icke is the wife of one of the most popular regular guests on News
for the Soul -- David Icke -- and she too has quite the story to tell. And
find out about enlightened relationship from someone who is in one... Don't
miss this raveling hour of enlightening talk radio ..."
As it happens, David Icke was recently assimilated by abovetopsecret.com. Since we now have hard evidence that abovetopsecret.com is hooked up with Wayne Jaeschke and that they claim Morrison and Foerster as their legal reps, and Jaeschke has been implicated as participating in the creation of the "Project Serpo" hoax,
this connection between Judy Andreas and the Icke people is highly suggestive.
Good observations, Godot. At present, it's hard to know anything for sure. I know things that are factual that I have been told in confidence and I've hinted at some of them above without revealing the sources. Other things I've said outright.Godot said:It seems to me that she is throwing John (Kaminsky) and Cindy Sheehan together with Rense as collaborators in the satisfied customer quote.It looks like the buyer of the book is saying all these people have foreworded it and Icke's wife has an article in it so they're all together in "something".
That depends on how a person defines "hacker." In the broad sense he IS a hacker and not just of computer technology.j0da said:Laura, only small info regarding proxies. There is no need to be an agent or a hacker to use different proxies.
I tried to listen to this "hour of enlightening talk radio" and couldn't quite manage to finish out the whole hour...Pamela rambled a lot and didn't seem to have anything very interesting to say...basically it was boring. In my opinion it certainly wasn't an inspiring story of an enlightened relationship.Laura said:From: http://www.enlighteneddating.com/softbi ... .php?id=21
"Pamela Icke is the wife of one of the most popular regular guests on News
for the Soul -- David Icke -- and she too has quite the story to tell. And
find out about enlightened relationship from someone who is in one... Don't
miss this raveling hour of enlightening talk radio ...".
Laura said:As it happens, David Icke was recently assimilated by abovetopsecret.com. Since we now have hard evidence that abovetopsecret.com is hooked up with Wayne Jaeschke and that they claim Morrison and Foerster as their legal reps, and Jaeschke has been implicated as participating in the creation of the "Project Serpo" hoax, this connection between Judy Andreas and the Icke people is highly suggestive.
I seem to recall that Rense and Icke were good buddies at one point and then either drifted apart or had a falling out. Well, maybe that was just for public consumption. This association of Pamela Icke with the gang suggests otherwise.
At a David Icke seminar in 2003 (not long after his ayahuasca experience) I briefly met Pamela in person (just a quick hello thing), and spent several hours observing her durng the daylong seminar. She was wearing a fringed cowgirl outfit and was impossible to ignore. I'd noticed her bopping around, and remember being surprised when I realized she was David's wife; I guess I was expecting a more serious looking type of person. While David had little to no personal interaction with the guests (he appeared tired), Pamela was very energetic, running around a lot and personally talking to people during the breaks. I can see why she has been described as "vivacious."Laura said:Good observations, Godot. At present, it's hard to know anything for sure. I know things that are factual that I have been told in confidence and I've hinted at some of them above without revealing the sources. Other things I've said outright.Godot said:It seems to me that she is throwing John (Kaminsky) and Cindy Sheehan together with Rense as collaborators in the satisfied customer quote.It looks like the buyer of the book is saying all these people have foreworded it and Icke's wife has an article in it so they're all together in "something".
It has happened to me too, mainly with casschat but occasionally with the SOTT Forum as well.Fifth Way said:I notice that during the recent weeks and being involved with this forum and others like this (on this web-site) the "topic-subscriptions" stops working from time to time. Meaning; even though I am subscribed to i.e. this topic, notifications just stop. Sometimes I wonder why I do not get any notification in a few days and so I go on the forum to check only to find dozen new posts!?
Is that happening to others as well?