This is a very important subject for our times.

Psychopaths in power makes for a mentally ill society. In Communist Poland, a psychologist observed that some people of weak minds were more vulnerable to the communist indoctrination, about 6% of the people. He took the opportunity to study the pathology of evil in political systems from inside the beast. Take the time to read this, it is fascinating and applies to our society.

"You can just imagine our worry, disappointment, and surprise when some colleagues we knew well suddenly began to change their world-view; their thought-patterns furthermore reminded us of the “professor’s” chatter." --
Andrew M. Lobaczewski Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes


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May the reader please imagine a very large hall in some old Gothic
university building. Many of us gathered there early in our studies in order
to listen to the lectures of outstanding philosophers. We were herded back
there the year before graduation in order to listen to the indoctrination
lectures which recently have been introduced. Someone nobody knew appeared
behind the lectern and informed us that he would now be the professor. His
speech was fluent, but there was nothing scientific about it: he failed to
distinguish between scientific and everyday concepts and treated borderline
imaginings as though it were wisdom that could not be doubted. For ninety
minutes each week, he flooded us with naïve, presumptuous paralogistics and
a pathological view of human reality. We were treated with contempt and
poorly controlled hatred. Since fun poking could entail dreadful
consequences, we had to listen attentively and with the utmost gravity.

"...The grapevine soon discovered this person's origins. He had come
from a
Cracow suburb and attended high school, although no one knew if he
graduated. Anyway, this was the first time he had crossed university
portals - as a professor, at that! [.]

After such mind-torture, it took a long time for someone to break the
silence. We studied ourselves, since we felt something strange had taken
over our minds and something valuable was leaking away irretrievably. The
world of psychological reality and moral values seemed suspended like in a
chilly fog. Our human feeling and student solidarity lost their meaning, as
did patriotism and our old established criteria. So we asked each other:
"Are you going through this too?" Each of us experienced this worry about
his own personality and future in his own way. Some of us answered the
questions with silence. The depth of these experiences turned out to be
different for each individual.

We thus wondered how to protect ourselves from the results of this
"indoctrination." Teresa D. made the first suggestion: Let's spend a weekend

in the mountains. It worked. Pleasant company, a bit of joking, then
exhaustion followed by deep sleep in a shelter, and our human personalities
returned, albeit with a certain remnant. Time also proved to create a kind
of psychological immunity, although not with everyone. Analysing the
psychopathic characteristics of the "professor's" personality proved another
excellent way of protecting one's own psychological hygiene.

You can just imagine our worry, disappointment, and surprise when some
colleagues we knew well suddenly began to change their world-view; their
thought-patterns furthermore reminded us of the "professor's" chatter. Their
feelings, which had just recently been friendly, became noticeably cooler,
although not yet hostile. Benevolent or critical student arguments bounced
right off of them. They gave the impression of possessing some secret
knowledge; we were only their former colleagues, still believing what those
professors of old had taught us. We had to be careful of what we said to
them..."
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