One popular view in recent times has been idea that scientific and religious beliefs are independent from each other in such a way that they cannot possibly come into conflict. There is, therefore, no need to try to bring them into harmony.

(…)

This two-truth solution, however, is difficult for most of us to accept. We feel that truth, ultimately, must all be of a piece.

The author studies the seemingly antagonistic relationship between science and religion; two systems of beliefs.

People are akin to be facing two huge antagonistic “flows”; the author expresses that those specific two’s are conciliable and can be brought to “harmony”.

The above quote hints at the natural process taking place when seemingly irreconciliable forces are clashing (the motion may be similar when those are truly irreconciliable).

First, as seen in the above excerpt:

• rationalization in term of “two 100% independent forces”

• “a two-truth” situation

An additional scenario goes as follows:

Various attempts have been made, accordingly, to provide a more palatable version of the two-truth solution. One such position holds that, although truth is one, we are, at least in this life, incapable of seeing this unity.

https://anthonybbradley.substack.com/p/how-churches-groom-boys-to-become

the tendency to place an “inordinate value on relationships over personal independence.”

We know it more commonly as people-pleasing.

The architecture of this failure is uncannily described by the psychoanalyst Karen Horney in Neurosis and Human Growth. Horney identified the “self-effacing solution,” a coping strategy built on a compulsive need for love and approval, purchased at “the price of a self-subordinating devotion.” This is the psychological root of people-pleasing.

The church, acting as a powerful source of what one might call spiritual "parent influence" or a formative "family dynamic," created the perfect environment for this neurosis to flourish.

The people-pleaser, conditioned to need external validation, is tragically susceptible to the need to fit in. Having been taught to distrust his own judgment, he will simply "follow what other people do around them" to avoid conflict and secure the approval he craves. This dynamic, what Horney calls "alienation from self," leaves him a stranger to his own inner life. It is a "depersonalizing, and therefore a devitalizing, process".

This alienation is the source of the deep tragedy. Because the idealized image of the "nice Christian boy" is an impossible standard.

He has created a "glorified self" that becomes a "measuring rod" with which he judges his actual self—and from this divine perspective, his human self is an embarrassing sight. This initiates a cycle of what Horney calls “self-hate” and “self-contempt.”

The result is the exact emotional state described in people-pleasers: chronic stress, anxiety, depression, and intense frustration or resentment that boils over in involuntary outbursts.

Horney called the result of this internal war “morbid dependency.”

Interesting to me have been those two quotes:

the self-effacing solution

a coping strategy

A coping strategy sometimes takes place because of a conflict with reality. Many times, this is artifically created through the imposition of irreconciliable conflictual situations. The reader will find studies about that right below.

Note: at the very end of the chain of the people-pleasing coping strategy, we find this idea of irreconciliability manifesting itself (“an impossible standard“):

Because the idealized image of the "nice Christian boy" is an impossible standard

I have been identifying this bugging irreconciliable “feature” in various posts:

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/the-gap

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/a-random-study-of-evil-in-our-society

This allowed me to try to lay down several “short models” / “mappings”, based on this duality, in order to try to identify this mecanism which seems to be a common one:

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/map-genesis-of-evil-in-our-society

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/map-consequences-of-evil-on-society

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/map-deficit-in-the-knowledge-of-evil

I have been stumbling upon the concept of “The conflict thesis” which I am digging right now:

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/conflict-thesis

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/various-reactions-when-confronted

On a different expression, I found that “gap” there too:

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/two-forces-opposed-to-each-others

As Harrison Koehli detected in his article "Depathologizing America," the United States was on a totalitarian trajectory—and Trump's election halted this process.

It took decades to build the lie, and two weeks to break it, fatally.

Quick sumup for the interested reader (otherwise jump to “Taylor”)

Since the 1960s, we have known that instead of the word "totalitarianism", we should use "pathocracy" - because totalitarianism corresponds to something precise, which has now been identified - and which has very distinct stages.

The natural worldview observes totalitarian phenomena with a touch of fatalism: "it had to happen" - "it could have turned out differently," etc. If we were to look at the news according to the definition of "pathocracy," we would simply become aware of something new.

There is no room for variation here—in reality, the process is always the same. One of the characteristics of totalitarianism is that it must be considered as an external entity infecting a major ideology. You see, this is what historians have failed to see: everyone thinks that all past totalitarian periods were unique—and that the causes had to do with their leaders and their ideologies. This is not the case. The root cause is independent—and an additional variable must be considered.

What remains true is that totalitarianism simmers beneath the surface for years, then it bursts into the open—and the situation becomes totalitarian. This phenomenon was underway in the United States. As mentioned, totalitarianism is based on a grand ideology (which it infects from within). It drives it, and initially its influence is weak—or even nonexistent (in which case it infiltrates it). The totalitarianism that died was concealed (this time) in capitalism.

Thus, we should characterize the situation as follows:

• "the pathocracy of capitalism"

• "the pathocracy that has infected capitalism"

Rather than

• "capitalism itself"

> Two distinct variables, for accurate studies, here.

Making this distinction is a whole world! (THE whole world).

Now that the context of what "a totalitarian phenomenon" actually is has been objectively defined, I will discuss the stages "which are always the same," based on what we know about pathocracy.

First step

I won't dwell on the entire process, which the reader will find here, but I will discuss the initial stage.

As mentioned, totalitarianism works as follows:

1. At the beginning, a large movement of some kind

2. which becomes infected by an entity

Sequential.

Look - it's generic:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political ponerology”

The initial step is a moral warping of the group’s ideational contents

In analyzing the contamination of a group’s ideology, we note first of all an infiltration of foreign, simplistic, and doctrinaire contents, thereby depriving it of any healthy support for, and trust in, the necessity of understanding of human nature.

A. Lobaczewski explains that major movements suffering from totalitarianism involve a very specific phase of ideological distortion. We will find this every time.

This must have been the case for Capitalism.

To be more precise, A. Lobaczewski reports that this ideological distortion is a form of "schizoidism" - a deviation from the "healthy" human mind.

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

Schizoidia: Schizoidia, or schizoidal psychopathy

Literature provides us with descriptions of several varieties of this anomaly, whose existence can be attributed either to changes in the genetic factor

Carriers of this anomaly are hypersensitive and distrustful, while, at the same time, pay little attention to the feelings of others. They tend to assume extreme positions, and are eager to retaliate for minor offenses. Sometimes they are eccentric and odd. Their poor sense of psychological situation and reality leads them to superimpose erroneous, pejorative interpretations

“Human nature is so bad that order in human society can only be maintained by a strong power created by highly qualified individuals in the name of some higher idea.”

typically pessimistic regarding human nature

Look at the basic idea - and tell yourself that this is what we would find somewhere upstream of Capitalism - “schizoïdism” - before it degenerated into totalitarianism.

This is because it is the first stage of a pathocracy. It is something invariable - an invariable component of all totalitarianisms.

We will therefore be looking for something very specific:

• starting from a major ideological movement influencing society (civilization!) - in this case, capitalism

• something that is damaging for “basic humanity”

• as a guiding principle

Here comes Taylor!

Taylor

Christophe DEJOURS & Isabelle GERNET - "Psychopathology of work"

… the organization of work on the Taylor model was characterized by the division and parcelling out of tasks, with a view to improving the efficiency of the work process

https://shs.cairn.info/article/TRAV_044_0195/pdf?lang=fr

Before the 21st century, the organization of work was decided by engineers and tradespeople. Today, they have lost power and been replaced by managers. The latter have introduced several new mechanisms that have completely transformed the organization of work.

Christophe DEJOURS - “Travail, usure mentale - De la psychopathologie à la psychodynamique du travail“

However, it is also important to highlight the repercussions of the Taylor system on physical health. As a new technology for subjugating the body and imposing discipline, the scientific organization of work gave rise to previously unknown physiological constraints, particularly those related to time and work pace. The performance requirements were entirely new and made the body the main target of the harmful effects of work.

Physical exhaustion no longer affects only manual laborers, but all workers in mass production. By radically separating intellectual and manual labor, the Taylor system neutralizes the mental activity of workers.

In doing so, it is not the psyche that appears to be the primary victim of the system, but rather the docile and disciplined body, unhindered by the demands of work organization, the methods engineer, and the hierarchical command structure. A defenseless body, an exploited body, a body weakened by the dispossession of its natural protector, the mind.

Christophe DEJOURS & Isabelle GERNET - "Psychopathology of work"

… contemporary forms of work organization are structured by flexibility, associated with management methods such as total quality and individualized performance evaluation

“Schizoidism opening the door to pathocracy” is a specific element:

Christophe DEJOURS & Isabelle GERNET - "Psychopathology of work"

Research in French-language ergonomics has led to the discovery of the irreducible gap between the work prescribed by the organization and actual activity.

This gap concerns all work situations

And so, the schizoidism here is to be seen as an underestimation of human reality: if there is an irreducible gap between "theory for activity" and "actual activity," going in the other direction will produce damage.

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

Work is never limited to carrying out instructions or orders given by management.

Working involves... a duty to rethink the objectives to be achieved (the task) and the path to be taken to try to achieve them (the activity).

It can be demonstrated through multiple approaches that total quality is impossible.

There is an irreconcilable gap between forecasts, method planning, and specifications on the one hand, and actual or concrete work on the other. Contrary to what many doctrines claim, there is never perfect production in work.

Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

the overvaluation of design and management inevitably leads to interpreting failures in ordinary work as the expression of incompetence, a lack of seriousness, carelessness, a lack of training, malevolence, a failure or an error, relating to man

And this schizoïdy is precisely what has been implemented with Taylor's methods—exacerbated in the decades to come:

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

By imposing total quality

Advertise total quality, not as a goal, but as a constraint

For the company, the psychological characteristics of individuals mostly function as a lever of work power

The process of destabilization (...) is independent of the quality of the work carried out, as well as the skills mobilized by the employee

describing production (manufacturing or service) based on results and not on the activities from which they originate. This is the first characteristic. The second consists of constructing a description that relies only on positive results and successes and lies, therefore by omission, by not mentioning what constitutes a defect or failure. Producing this discourse is not the result of an error of judgment or naivety, but of duplicity.

producing discursive practices

Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

A new element has made this new direction possible. It is the organization of many companies in the mode of fragmentation into "results centers", "profit centers" or "directions by objective".

A few decades later... Totalitarianism of work!

Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

Our hypothesis is that, since 1980, [...] society as a whole has undergone a qualitative transformation, to the point where it no longer reacts in the same way as it did in the past. To be more precise, we are essentially referring to an evolution in social reactions to suffering, misfortune and injustice. This evolution would be characterized by an attenuation of reactions of indignation, anger and collective mobilization for action in favor of solidarity and justice, while reactions of reserve, hesitation and perplexity, even outright indifference, would develop, along with collective tolerance of inaction and resignation in the face of injustice and the suffering of others. No analyst disputes this evolution. Many despair. Only the explanations for this phenomenon differ. It's hard to understand how a political mutation of this magnitude could have taken place in such a short space of time.

(…)

Since the 1990s, more recent research in occupational clinics has highlighted new forms of suffering associated with the transformation of work organization methods.

So we see an error that was implemented - and then negative development took place.

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

Work is never limited to carrying out instructions or orders given by management.

Working involves... a duty to rethink the objectives to be achieved (the task) and the path to be taken to try to achieve them (the activity).

It can be demonstrated through multiple approaches that total quality is impossible.

There is an irreconcilable gap between forecasts, method planning, and specifications on the one hand, and actual or concrete work on the other. Contrary to what many doctrines claim, there is never perfect production in work.

Thanks for reading!

Warning: this article aims to examine certain principles of manipulation and distortion of the natural world view.

It could be difficult to read! It deals with a mecanism of enslavement.

I must warn you: everything that follows can be depressing.

Love and happiness are the highest spiritual values and energies: remain hopeful that even if they are not apparent at the moment, they are still present, available and capable of working! Love with a capital ‘L’ seems to have its own laws. So trust in the experience that shows that it sometimes oddly pops up in midst of darkest and most difficult days!

Two quotes

I seem to have observed a negative mechanism that lies at the level of our affinity for ‘the pursuit of happiness’. From what I understand, our affinity for happiness is like hijacked and manipulated to function within a process.

Here are two excerpts, from two different books on psychology, that caught my attention – I worked to understand what connected them. The interest lies in the fact that the element of ‘the pursuit of happiness’ comes into play as a manipulated object in a psychopathological context:

Christophe DEJOURS - “Work, mental wear: from psychopathology to the psychodynamics of work” (FRENCH)

… the defensive strategy which, at the beginning, was only dedicated to defense against suffering is soon erected into a promise of happiness

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

Since a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view, he generally relies on emotion: intuition and the pursuit of happiness.

Introduction

Two references to “the pursuit of happiness”; in both cases, the process of “pursuing happiness” is embedded within a ‘negative’ structure, of the “manipulation of human principle” type.

I identified the first one while studying the framework of a French psychologist, Christophe DEJOURS, who studied the psychopathology of work.

Christophe DEJOURS describes a mechanism of enslavement, present in the world of work, suffered by employees and directed by the company's management structure.

I will recount this, but what is very important here is that once we understand the phenomenon—which corresponds to a well-oiled mechanism—it may be possible to apply it to contexts other than the world of work.

For example, while I mentioned above that company management causes employees to suffer, we could extend this consideration to a scenario involving:

• any management—any “politics”—any “decision-making” situation

• “lower levels”—subordinate elements

Okay. I will now describe the two models, starting with Christophe Dejours's, then Lobaczewski's. In both cases, I will go so far as to highlight the presence of “the pursuit of happiness”—in order to continue my article toward the point of interest.

Christophe DEJOURS

I'm absolutely sorry to give the reader a big chunk of information, but I must explain what C. Dejours observed in the world of work so that the quote about the pursuit of happiness can be understood in context.

Sources:

• Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

• Christophe DEJOURS & Isabelle GERNET - "Psychopathology of work"

• Christophe DEJOURS - “Work, mental wear: from psychopathology to the psychodynamics of work”

• Christophe DEJOURS - “Evaluation of work in term of its reality-proof aspect”

• Christophe DEJOURS -Council « Violence, work, employment, health »

• Christophe DEJOURS - “Work as an enigma”

• Christophe DEJOURS - “Organization of work - Alienation - Cliveage”

Research in French-language ergonomics has revealed an unbridgeable gap between [the work] prescribed by the organization and the actual activity.

In fact, there is always a gap between what is prescribed and the concrete reality of the situation. This gap between what is prescribed and what is actually done can be found at all levels of analysis between technique and activity.

Work is never limited to carrying out instructions or orders given by management.

Working involves... a duty to rethink the objectives to be achieved (the task) and the path to be taken to try to achieve them (the activity).

It can be demonstrated through multiple approaches that total quality is impossible.

There is an irreconcilable gap between forecasts, method planning, and specifications on the one hand, and actual or concrete work on the other. Contrary to what many doctrines claim, there is never perfect production in work.

Basically:

Irreductible gap between design and execution

The resistance of reality, which manifests itself through failure, creates suffering, which is all the greater when it is denied.

The gap between the prescribed and actual organization of work can only be rationally managed by building compromises between different points of view on the functioning and status of the work process.

Rationally managing the adjustment of work organization therefore requires building compromises after deliberation between opinions and views.

This presupposes the existence of a “space for discussion.”

= Conflict with reality

The quality of the discussion space depends fundamentally on choices made in terms of work organization and the design of relationships between work, work organization, and corporate governance

when authority is associated with professional competence, knowledge, and recognition of work

A commitment to rationality is possible; it has to be implemented by the “managers”

The confrontation of opinions is fraught with many practical difficulties (...) which are sources of communication distortion.

Among the disorders that hamper communication are:

• deliberate disruptions of the space for discussion

• some of which amount to outright lies.

A shift towards a negative situation can occur.

We seek to characterize a particular form of distortion

a process of destabilization by the company

that is not only intentional, but strategic

This discourse is not the result of misjudgment or naivety, but of duplicity

Management commits itself against the principles of reality.

By imposing total quality

Advertise total quality, not as a goal, but as a constraint

For the company, the psychological characteristics of individuals mostly function as a lever of work power

The process of destabilization (...) is independent of the quality of the work carried out, as well as the skills mobilized by the employee

describing production (manufacturing or service) based on results and not on the activities from which they originate. This is the first characteristic. The second consists of constructing a description that relies only on positive results and successes and lies, therefore by omission, by not mentioning what constitutes a defect or failure. Producing this discourse is not the result of an error of judgment or naivety, but of duplicity.

producing discursive practices

Managers define total quality as a constraint

generates a whole series of adverse effects that can have disastrous consequences

a series of incidences, to which insufficient attention is paid

Nasty stuff.

Denial of reality [of work] forms the basis of distortion

generally associated with denial of suffering [in relation to work]

denial of reality ... involves overvaluing design and management inevitably leads to interpreting failures [in ordinary work] as expressions of incompetence, lack of seriousness, carelessness, lack of training, malice, failure, or error on the part of man.

This pejorative interpretation of human behavior is summarized in the concept of the “human factor,” used by specialists in safety, security, reliability, and prevention.

... power exercised without violence can nevertheless generate violence in those who are subject to that power

Human nature is perceived as being the “source of the problem.”

The negotiation of compromises between desire and reality is not left to chance; rather, it is regulated by a series of very precise devices, which have been described and analyzed over the last hundred years or so, and which we call “repression”, ‘identification’, “projection” and so on. They are grouped together under the generic term of “defense mechanisms”.

In such a context, suffering appears. The issue, originating at the level of “organizing principles”, is never treated and a sort of “loop” ensures.

The following quotes are not all from C. Dejours:

• graduated tolerance of an organization that runs counter to desires, needs and health

• danger to moral and subjective autonomy

• a dynamic of permanent tension

• permanent contradictory demands

• “The experience of reality [in the workplace] translates into confrontation with failure”

Alienation.

And what matters here is that it’s the defensive mecanism which lead to that alienation. This defensive mecanism is a palliative: its role is to allow to cope with the chunk of reality that has been ignored.

And so, what I mean is that the defensive mecanism will be in motion, as long as the initial issue - ignoring an irreducible gap - remains unsolved.

At some point, going to work day after day, suffering from this motion, will turn the defense mecanism into an ideology. In addition, when 80% of the employees are under the same hardship - no wonder that the defense strategy can become a “valued model”.

This is precisely a problem raised by C. Dejours - and where we will find “The pursuit of happiness”:

Christophe DEJOURS - “Work, mental wear: from psychopathology to the psychodynamics of work”

the defensive strategy which, at the beginning, was only dedicated to defense against suffering is soon erected into a promise of happiness

Basically, this quote explains a situation where we are reduced to valuing something useless and taking it as a promise of happiness.

It's quite common: ‘making a lot of money’, etc. - appearing in society, many ‘false models’ are generated. Here, it is serious and it is a question of a variant of ‘alienation through work’. What we value is “a false model”, yes, but it is much more than that: it is a defence strategy against suffering. The latter is elevated to a promise of happiness.

Thanks to C. Dejours, we can observe a psychological context that may provide valuable data on the path that these models (from low to high damage) take to become integrated into our world view.

One central element is our strategy for searching/detecting happiness.

Ok, now that I have been able to track that one down, here is Lobaczewski.

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI

This article is aimed at people who are somewhat familiar with the subject - but I'll try to summarize quickly so as not to lose any readers. Here is what Andrew M. Lobaczewski told us in his book "Political Ponerology":

The society of integrated people is not homogeneous in terms of mental health.

There is a DNA variant that produces people with a psyche fundamentally oriented towards predating normal people, without producing any visible signs of this orientation. Bernard Madoff is an example - he was perfectly integrated into society and showed no visible signs of insanity.

Numbering approximately 6%, essential psychopathies represent "evil" and constitute, according to Lobaczewski, the decisive factor for the health of a society, of a civilization.

The hereditary anomaly "predation" has not yet been detected by science: these people therefore run free in society.

Alongside them (well, in the same environment, actually), there are normal people, who actually constitute a norm—and this norm is based on the characterization of a healthy psyche (as opposed to psychopaths, whose generic characterization is DNA-linked psychological deviance—also called "psychopathology"):

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

After all, psychologically normal people constitute both the great statistical majority and the real base of societal life in each community. According to natural law, they should thus be the ones to set the pace; moral law is derived from their nature. Power should be in the hands of normal people. A ponerologist only demands that such authority be endowed with an appropriate understanding of these less-normal people, and that the law be based upon such understanding.

~94% of normal people

~6% of DNA-based psycho pathologies

The natural worldview, which is heavily influenced by science, literature, etc., does not recognize this. For most people, "danger" is found "where there is a big fire burning" - so to speak.

We thus observe that a specific knowledge is lacking—the decisive factor in the health of the world, so to speak—and that is also the identification of evil. Just that! Let's hope this will change one day, but for now, here's where we are.

Andrew Lobaczewski summed it up this way:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

Since a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view, he generally relies on emotion: intuition and the pursuit of happiness.

This time it went faster to reach “the pursuit of happiness”!

But before I digress, let me return to the first part of the quote:

a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view

If that wasn't clear, this sums up what I explained about predatory psychopaths a little earlier. Normal, ordinary people are completely unaware of the existence of hereditary psychopathology—and the fact that it produces freewheeling monsters.

This is “beyond the ken of the natural world view”.

The “truly operational factors” are not even recognized as such. As stated before, that’s “evil”, what evil is, etc. The big & real danger out there.

And so. Here we get to “the pursuit of happiness” - as follows:

A person not in the know will have a world view articulated differently than “there exists psychopaths … that’s teh real evil out there … etc”. Mostly, the world view, which is an apparatus for navigating & taking decisions - will be based upon various “principles”. Lobaczewski hinted at those as follows:

he generally relies on emotion: intuition and the pursuit of happiness

And so that’s it. Let us remind ourselves how this situation is a second-hand one, where people would resort to a second-hand strategy, by “default”, because of an absence of “knowledge about evil”. And so this is far from being optimal - and I shall point out how such a situation is a loose-loose one.

Any way, here it is, a person relies on the pursuit of happiness, as a tool, as a compass.

Binding all together

I'm almost done with this article, you've made it to the end! Thanks for sticking with it!

If we extended C. Dejours' model to something generic, what would it give?

1. The existence of an irreducible gap

2. commiting the organizational principles to its ignorance

3. suffering

4. a defensive mecanism is yielded

5. with time, this becomes the “normal context” - and endorses the value of “promise to happiness”

Lobaczewski tells us about normal people, mixed in society with psychopaths, who are considered by all as being the same kind fo people. No difference.

This is an irreducible gap which is ignored…

And then, the interactions with psychopaths are taking place in a very damaging context, where “the truly operational factors” are not known.

The person will resort to “the pursuit of happiness”. Right?

As long as psychopaths manage to remain concealed in society, this will yield both conditions for a nasty psychological loop:

• [a really undesirable situation in any case] The mind, without the critical knowlegde, is resorting to “the pursuit of happiness”

• [a really undesirable situation in any case] “My defensive ideology smells like happiness - I shall go”

The problem and the solution…

Q.E.D.

And the problem, of course, is that most professional structures have been affected by these new neoliberal management techniques, introduced in the 1980s and 1990s. This constitutes an absolutely general breeding ground for the second aspect of "manipulation."

The second component (first in the above bullet list) draws its strength from the influence and concealment of psychopathology. Its multiplication would therefore be an objective to serve the entire mechanism.

Conclusion

Summing up - key elements

I studied two quotes from different contexts:

Christophe DEJOURS - “Work, mental wear: from psychopathology to the psychodynamics of work”

the defensive strategy which, at the beginning, was only dedicated to defense against suffering is soon erected into a promise of happiness

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

Since a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view, he generally relies on emotion: intuition and the pursuit of happiness

Both refer to the principle of "the pursuit of happiness" - in a context of psychopathology, as both excerpts suggest that a psychopathological organization is occurring. Psychopathological, in the sense that it is not attentive to the intrinsic human qualities.

This is manifested via the organizational principles of an entity that manages people.

Christophe DEJOURS -Commission « Violence, travail, emploi, santé »

Clinical analysis of the causes of the increase in mental pathology at work ultimately points to organizational causes.

C. Dejours reports a psychopathological twist at the organization of work.

A. Lobaczewski reports a psychopathological twist at the organization of the world view.

The pivotal element is the “organization”.

It is expected from the organizing principles to be effective / positive in a specific aspect:

Whatever political regime is considered, to the extent that it claims to amend the socio-economic obstacles to "happiness", it will have to be judged on its capacity to take into account the conflicting relationship between the organization of work and the mental apparatus.

That would be the prime role of a sane organizational principle (of course if happiness is really an objectively genuine human “feature”).

A wrong organization is set up after an “irreducible gap” is ignored.

And so, initially, the existence of an irreducible gap starts the whole.

There exists, thus, here, a step going by “a commitment” to ignoring this irreducible gap. That’s denial of reality.

A second commitment consists of setting up the (flawed) organization.

Suffice to get an irreducible gap - and work against it.

A model applicable to different domains

In practice, this isn't limited to the world of work.

Christophe Dejours has highlighted a whole host of ingredients present in the mechanism following “a commitment that ignores an irreconcilable gap”.

In my article, I outlined and briefly explained things as follows:

1. Implementation of a poor organization

2. Employee suffers

3. Defense mechanism is put in place

4. …

Christophe Dejours explains that all of this, starting from the gap, and ending up with alienation, consists of an elaborated device - en engine relying on three stages:

The first stage consists of the leaders … and the concrete organisation of the work

The second tier is made up of direct collaborators … unification, coordination and active participation are achieved through collective strategies and ideologies of defence

Finally, the third tier is made up of the mass of people

Christophe Dejours managed to stand up above all the work aspect, and the above is basically how evil operates. Evil yields a three stage system / structure. That’s how it manifests.

The thing I would like to convey is that the system studied by C. Dejours, which concerns the organization of work, may be applicable to the organization of the world view, with all that this implies.

C. Dejours’ inputs may be straight relating to Lobaczewski, simply by permuting the word “work” with that of “world view”. A world view is nothing less than an organizing principle, acting like a hierarchical voice for a person.

Lobaczewski's model explains all kind of things about world views, in his framework. Insufficience, how psychopaths places common blokes in a situation of second-hand “mode”, how people are tempted to use moralization when facing a psychopath - etc.

This seems due to the fact that ordinary people are facing an unknown (“yet uncategorized, in the world view”) source of tension:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

Since a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view (…)

The above idea intends to study the world view within C. Dejours’ framework.

Moving furthe rinto that direction would make me ponder that extensive psychopathic influence, as a daily “routine”, may well be yielding suffering - and a coping mecanism of some sort.

In C. Dejours’ model, a defense strategy against suffering is born because of an irreconcilable situation—and the big big issue is that the defense becomes a “mode of being” - to end up being considered as a source of promise for happiness (a substitue).

Any defense strategy to combat suffering is likely to take on this character - to be erected as a source of hapinness. Wherever you got a defensive strategy, there may be a risk.

And then, considering Lobaczewski’s inputs would hint at the next step that would pop up: leveraging it.

This could therefore be found in other contexts—all contexts, in fact—and which would generate a defensive psychological strategy.

It seems to me that these are those that arise, initially, from an irreconcilable conflict that the mind cannot resolve. An irreconciliable conflict as a sine qua non condition. Let’s think broadly then, and see if this applies to world views, for example.

And so, instead of:

“Wherever you got a defensive strategy, there may be a risk.”

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“Wherever you got a defensive strategy, yielded by an irreconciliable gap uphill, there may be a risk.”

I am pondering, thus the appearance of the next mecanism - which is this one:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

Since a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view, he generally relies on emotion: intuition and the pursuit of happiness

Simply put, within the condition of an active defensive strategy intending to cope with a suffering yielded by an irreconciliable gap (pfffou long word combo!), the next step would forcibly be a motion triggering the Lobaczewski quote - insistance on “you cannot see it, you cannot understand it”.

This propulses the person into the second-hand default mode - relying on its happiness compass in order to solve the situation - and it reaches the idea that the defensive strategy is “the road”.

Some “on the fly” motion i shighlighted, there, and I suppose that this has to deal with various stimulis that one could face. TV, interaction with a psychopath - whatever psychopathologica factor could act as a coil for such “engine”.

Schizoïdy

It appears that Taylor's definition of work organizations constitutes the schizoid factor of Capitalism. Read here:

https://palmoth.substack.com/p/was-taylorism-the-schizoidal-part

This leads us to consider “a pathocracy of world views”.

Staring at the consequences of “flawed organizational principles” can reveal:

Rudolf Steiner - “Lucifer and Ahriman“

A dynamic tension exists because of the contrary demands which living in each of these realms places on us.

We experience this on a daily basis, an internal tug-of-war, pulling first in one direction, then to the opposite pole.

Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

The experience of reality … translates into confrontation with failure

… inevitably leads to interpreting failures [in ordinary work] as expressions of incompetence, lack of seriousness, carelessness, lack of training, malice, failure, or error on the part of man

pejorative interpretation of human behavior

It's enough to make you schizoid!

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political Ponerology”

Schizoidia: Schizoidia, or schizoidal psychopathy

Literature provides us with descriptions of several varieties of this anomaly, whose existence can be attributed either to changes in the genetic factor

Carriers of this anomaly are hypersensitive and distrustful, while, at the same time, pay little attention to the feelings of others. They tend to assume extreme positions, and are eager to retaliate for minor offenses. Sometimes they are eccentric and odd. Their poor sense of psychological situation and reality leads them to superimpose erroneous, pejorative interpretations

“Human nature is so bad that order in human society can only be maintained by a strong power created by highly qualified individuals in the name of some higher idea.”

typically pessimistic regarding human nature

And so, let’s not conflate genuine natures who are usually positive - with the consequences of negative manipulations.

Human nature does in fact tend to be naughty, especially when the schizoids embitter other people’s lives

That’s a fact, the work place and the world views have been badly affected. Most have been manipulated to end up in a loop of suffering. Let us hope that this changes for the better!

A conclusion here is that the commitment to an irreducible gap matches the schïzoid model of Lobaczewski. Such element starts a pathocratic cycle in the structure affected by it.

A specific of this three-stage system

Within this mechanism, there is a specific interaction that I would like to mention.

It has already been reported above that these harmful managerial principles suggested total quality. Total quality, as mentioned, becomes problematic when it is defined as a constraint (and not as an objective). Total quality is a debatable aspect.

C. Dejours' study shows that within a system defining total quality as a constraint, employees are also subject to several other factors: primarily, threat. The threat of losing one's job seems to be a main component, and Christophe Dejours observed that this relates to the fear of job insecurity. Losing one's job means losing one's social status, becoming poor, becoming prone to "illness," etc.

We therefore observe a mechanism, permanently opposing total quality to precariousness.

I've had time to digest all this data. I've realized that, indeed, total quality is often freely contrasted with precariousness.

You may observe what I see: total quality is very often directly opposed to precarity, as a mechanism of fear—in our world.

Total quality, here, can also be performance. So, if you observe any insistence on performance—often an incentive—look for a reference to precarity, directly present nearby... You will find this.

This, my friends, basically consists of “a coil” based on the leveraging of an irreducible gap.

If you see a commercial building built of white marble and gold plaques, with a "Performance!" sign and an unemployment office next to it, run away: the whole place is spiritually affected by a negative cosmic manipulation.

Additional notes

Here are two elements that may prove to be of interest:

https://www.sott.net/article/500641-Palestine-and-the-production-of-ignorance

It's common nowadays for (academics) to say that they are in the business of "(knowledge) production." That way of putting things can sometimes sound a bit pretentious, since it suggests that we are laboring on the assembly line, (…)

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The management is stating “we are all labouring towards the same goals” while it’s not true - so a discrepancy at this level may be highlighted.

Psychopaths have different goals than the ones of ordinary people.

https://doi.org/10.3917/trav.028.0149

The imposed relational system competes with the network of relationships that the various actors would forge among themselves, if they were free.

The psychopathological consequences of this relational system imposed by the organization of work have not been clearly analyzed by occupational psychopathology.

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The damaging management system yields the above state of affairs.

Psychopaths, in free wheels in society: we are being forced into unwanted relationships.

I have an old post in which I have been trying to illustrate that “irreducible gap”, for the interested readers.

Thank you for reading!

I hope to read some comments, corrections.

https://www.sott.net/article/501198-Equality-under-the-Hayekian-Rule-of-Law

Yet the whole point of the rule of law is to govern everyone by the same general rules despite their individual differences.

FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK - "THE CONSTITUTION OF LIBERTY"

"[W]e must not overlook the fact that individuals are very different from the outset.... As a statement of fact, it just is not true that "all men are born equal."

It follows that the rule of law is not evaluated by reference to whether people are in fact equal, but by ensuring that the rules apply to all in the same way.

Thus, Hayek emphasizes that equality before the law neither "assumes that people are in fact equal [nor] attempts to make them equal."

And so, it has to deal with a false idea of equality:

reference to whether people are in fact equal

This is the essential flaw in critical legal theories that expect all groups of people to end up "equal"

And another vector / factor here in this equation is that of “liberty”:

Friedrich von Hayek considered the rule of law to be essential in minimizing coercion and enhancing individual liberty.

Liberty is bound to produce inequality because people are essentially different.

Any attempt to equalize people would go against that, and would in fact be "the opposite of freedom."

This study criticizes “social justice warriors”, “minorities demanding political representation & power” - sometime sunder the guise of “equality”.

This aspect, underlying the study, underlines how the justice system is not flawed at the level that “we” (or “those minorities” - social justice warriors” - and some of those are really dishonest and are the target of a manipulation aimed at seizing the minority later, once power has been grabbed) would think of.

Under the rule of law, people's innate differences are deemed to be irrelevant, hence the classical reference to "blind justice."

Currently, the justice system does not consider innate differences to the extent that general laws are working efficiently.

Simply put, this has to deal witht he fact that “majority rules” - justice and law are somehow executive aspects of society - just engines. “Tweak those”, etc. Those are initially neutral engines - which in turns can become dedicated to various “principles”.

Instead of looking at the culprit, some people may be tempted to emphasize the wrong side of the stick - and insist and developp the idea that “we are all the same”, which is actually the very source of the problem!

At best, those are honest people but mis-understanding the idea of equality; at worse, it’s a manipulation via the qualificative of “equality”. Thsi would not be adressing the issue which would be the study of a general law successfully adressing an hetergoneous society - but would aim for homogeneization. The result is:

… to value equality so highly that they are prepared to give up liberty and destroy civilization in order to achieve a more equal society

claim to value equality so highly that they are prepared to give up liberty and destroy civilization in order to achieve a more equal society. In most cases, people who claim to want a tradeoff between equality and liberty simply hope and expect that they can reconcile the contradictions pointed out by Hayek. They suppose that they would be quite happy to have a little less liberty if that would yield a little more equality. But Hayek shows this expectation to be woefully misguided.

I wrote a post illustrating the existence of different nature of people in society, trying to illustrate the requirement for more objective organizational principles:

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/there-exists-a-different-nature

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/a-difference-of-nature

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/the-specific-hereditary-psychopathy

The above is an objective state of affairs; a commitment to another idea yields the following mecanism:

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/the-mistake

What should take place ideally is a study, according to the hereditary nature of people, because sometimes the discrepancies are mattering for the quality of society.

Here is a basic model stating the steps of such a “logic”:

• https://palmoth.substack.com/p/the-lobaczewski-method

I believe that it would be technically possible to define laws which objectively encompass the various variables. According to Andrew LOBACZEWSKI, the critical factor would be “psychopathology” and especially hereditary. This would translate with laws built upon a coercive intervention depending on the degree of expression of psychopathology (“deviancy from the ordinary sane norm”) - this would be the restricting factor.

The problem is that we got psychopaths in free wheels, rarely spotted and doing big damage to society.

The present system of law considers that everybody able to act in a society fits. But here, if we have a look at what essential psychopathy is, we would discover that:

https://www.sott.net/article/154258-A-Structural-Theory-of-Narcissism-and-Psychopathy

a diagnosis of psychopathy cannot be made on the basis of visible behavioral symptoms

Canucwhatic Blogspot - “Why do we love psychopaths and sociopaths?”

Psychopaths, however, are people who, at their very core, lack the capacity to make an emotional connection with others, who lack the capacity to empathize, but who have not broken with reality.

https://www.sott.net/article/204905-Ponerology-101-The-Psychopaths-Mask-of-Sanity

… what exactly psychopathy is. The term had come to describe individuals whose emotional life and social behavior were abnormal, but whose intellectual capacities were undisturbed.

https://www.sott.net/article/148141-The-Trick-of-the-Psychopaths-Trade-Make-Us-Believe-that-Evil-Comes-from-Others

Most people are familiar with the idea of the exceptional cunning of the madman, but psychopathy, in its several varieties, has an additional element: the Mask of Sanity.

Somehow, justice is stuck at the level of “the madman”: as long as psychopaths don’t break up with reality, keep their mask of sanity and don’t display visible symptoms of deviancy - they will do damage.

This may be the variable aimed for by Hayek’s study which goes as follows:

• “justice is not efficient enough”

• “And here is why”

• "[W]e must not overlook the fact that individuals are very different from the outset.... As a statement of fact, it just is not true that "all men are born equal."

• “We need a better criterion / to refine the criterions for justice application”

This has to deal with the origination of criminal acts, in term of “a quality” requiring further consideration and categorization.

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/psychopathy-and-antisocial-personality-disorder-case-diagnostic-confusion

psychopaths are […] almost certain to reoffend

And this is based on a DNA heredity.

Furthermore, some hard core psychopaths commit crime because it’s in their nature; those are “predatoristics”:

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/final-thoughts-on-the-persistent

Persistent Predatory Personality

Karen Mitchell’s thesis summarize her conclusions and offer some future directions for the research fields in question.

Mitchell’s PPP model posits that there is a single, overarching “dark” personality type that includes disorders and conceptualizations currently thought to be discrete phenomena. This includes psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism, which in this model are considered “partial conceptualizations” of the predatory personality.

It appears that Bernard MADOFF was one of such type.

At this stage, for example, a different consideration would be done in regard of ordinary people and their propensity to crime.

This is more than this and has to deal with the consideration of evil / damage. It is insufficiently qualified so as to deal with it as it is objectively.

The present justice system would be exclusively considering things in term of the output - the crime committed and disregards a lot of inputs which would, for example, be beneficial, first in our understanding of it, and, second, in the execution of law.

The whole view of it must be rethought.

Describing selected phenomena

Describing the causative chains characteristic for ponerogenic (= “generative of evil”) processes

Link such chains into more complex structures ever more sufficient for grasping the full picture of the real causative network

Pretty interesting ideed to figure out that intellectuals already spotted the problem long time ago.

Here is a quote illustrating one problem:

The current undiscriminating use of the word "democratic" as a general term of praise is not without danger. It suggests that, because democracy is a good thing, it is always a gain for mankind if it is extended. This may sound self-evident, but it is nothing of the kind.

Representative democracy is not a bad idea - but there exists irreconciliable differences of nature uphill, and setting democracy without discrimination would just yield a structure offering opportunities of power to deviant individuals who know how to skillfully navigate in society.

Basic democracy features, as a criterion, “eligibility for power” to all. There are people who should not be eligible for power, at all, because those are, first, not representative of the norm (ordinary humans), and second, because they truly feature DNA heredity yielding psychopathology: there is no chance at all that those shall be able to, by themselves, to feature “the sane norm of ordinary people” - or at leats not on a consistent way, etc etc. And overall what’s required here is a representation of the majority, of the norm. Not people representative of somethind else.

This post is an old one and a follow-up of reading various inputs about work:

https://palmoth.substack.com/p/psychopathology-of-work

FIRST CONSIDERATION

The above post lists a huge description of the situation in France. It appears that what is described is not restricted to France. Here is the quote, describing the French situation:

A)

Our hypothesis is that, since 1980, [...] society as a whole has undergone a qualitative transformation, to the point where it no longer reacts in the same way as it did in the past. To be more precise, we are essentially referring to an evolution in social reactions to suffering, misfortune and injustice. This evolution would be characterized by an attenuation of reactions of indignation, anger and collective mobilization for action in favor of solidarity and justice, while reactions of reserve, hesitation and perplexity, even outright indifference, would develop, along with collective tolerance of inaction and resignation in the face of injustice and the suffering of others. No analyst disputes this evolution. Many despair. Only the explanations for this phenomenon differ. It's hard to understand how a political mutation of this magnitude could have taken place in such a short space of time.

(…)

Since the 1990s, more recent research in occupational clinics has highlighted new forms of suffering associated with the transformation of work organization methods.

Interesting points would be:

• since 1980 … society … has undergone a qualitative transformation

• an evolution in social reactions to suffering, misfortune and injustice

• characterized by … indifference … collective tolerance … resignation in the face of injustice and the suffering of others

• associated with the transformation of work organization methods

• new forms of suffering

The second quote is the following one and describes something similar - in Japan:

B)

https://yakubianape.substack.com/p/the-american-hikikomori

In the highly-competitive and strictly traditional Japan on the early 90’s, the sudden proliferation of hikikomori across the country could be seen as a knee-jerk response by young people to a sudden and radical change in society, where many had the expectations of what their future would be, hard-coded into them from an early age, yanked out from under their feet seemingly overnight.

For those unaware, hikokomori is a Japanese term used to describe a Japanese social phenomenon in which an individual completely retreats from society.

The natural result of this stunted growth was the rapid erosion of what the Japanese call Shushin Kyo - Lifetime Employment Model, in English - in which an individual is hired by a company out of college and could reasonably expect to remain employed by them for the rest of their career.

… a response to then-current Japanese socio-economic conditions. Even the Japanese Ministry of Health echoed this sentiment when they described hikokomori phenomenon as psycho-sociological rather than a psychotic condition akin to schizophrenia or a psychological disorder like depression.

The second excerpt does not use exactly the same terms, but nevertheless describes a situation of significant psychological deterioration, the origin of which stems from work.

For the first excerpt, if we took a closer look at the problem observed in France, we would notice several things (you can find this in the link mentioned at the beginning of my article).

By observing the workplace, which seems to be the source of all this suffering, we could see that questionable management practices are putting employees under pressure. To put it simply, new management techniques were implemented in the late 1970s, and they were not very respectful of human beings.

In the highly-competitive and strictly traditional Japan on the early 90’s

In France, it’s part of the neoliberal ideology—a condition where money and profit come before people.

The second thing is that employees find themselves under management that literally creates conflicts. It's more complicated than that, but I could express it as them being subjected to “money vs. people” pressure. As is the case in management, employees don't really have a say in the matter—they just have to put up with it as an organizing principle. Spend five years in such an environment and your mind will not emerge unscathed.

So, in order to cope with a terribly contradictory situation (of “constant tension” and “denial of reality”), people's psyches find a way to endure it—they don't want to lose their jobs (which is understandable).

Psychological defense mechanisms kick in. The suffering doesn't go away, and a kind of vicious circle sets in. The point of interest here is “the adoption of psychological defense strategies.” It should also be noted that, in the long run, the defense strategy becomes “mainstream”—and becomes an ideology for people. Further on, one condition that exists is to worship this ideology. It's really the end of the line of the unacceptable—but this is where people have been led.

The situation in Japan is very similar. Here is more:

One of the most visceral depictions of the toll such a lifestyle can take on the human body and mind is the anime series, Welcome to the NHK. The story begins with the hikokomori protagonist discovering that the Japan Broadcasting Corporation⁵ is engaged in a conspiracy to keep him trapped in this vicious cycle of isolation and self-abuse…

Throughout the course of the narrative, the protagonist’s mental maladies and degraded social capabilities, exacerbated by years of isolation, lead to brief but destructive dalliances with drug, alcohol, video game, internet, and anime addiction, obsessions with disturbing sexual paraphilia, as well as monetary and religious scams, all of which are aided and abedded - sometimes unknowingly - by a cast of equally unwell individuals.

well, for years, now, I’ve seen think-pieces written by both small and large publications on the hikikomori phenomenon, hand-wringing on when it may arrive on American shores, as if it were some virulent, airborne plague. The truth of the matter is that it’s been here for some time, now; we just lacked the vocabulary to identify it, or the chutzpah to just up and admit that it’s already taken root.

For those interested in the mechanism that lies upstream, it seems that “the politic commits itself to the instauration of damaging organizing principles.”

The idea here is that this is a generical model - not restricted to the work place.

• politic = whatever direction, “political power”, bosses

• commitment = a decision to opt for a specific direction

• damaging organizing principles

This therefore applies to any structure that is organized and operates on the basis of a hierarchy. This is not a bad thing, of course, but the problem lies in the fact that when management is put in place, it has a choice: there are forms of organizational structure that produce tremendous results but do not respect the people producing those results. Management also has the option of moving toward organizational principles that are more respectful of its subordinates. This is what transforms hierarchy into tyranny—and it is fortunate that not everyone chooses the first option.

SECOND CONSIDERATION

To be more precise, the organizational principle does not respect human functioning defines “tasks to be performed” (work theory, memos, task descriptions, guidelines) as a 100% achievable goal. Somewhere, “total quality is possible” and the specific problem is that this mindset is set as a constraint - not as a goal.

corresponds to a specific “management” work, and involves prescriptions and evaluations which can be “modulated” individually or collectively

The reality is that theory is one thing, and practice is another. It is not technically possible to achieve a perfect match. It is possible to strive for total quality and a sound guiding principle, but in practice, achieving a 100% match is so rare that defining this as a constraint is simply a misjudgment.

It appears that this is even being consciously manipulated—with full knowledge of the consequences.

So it is intentional, and the mechanism is part of an irreducible gap:

Christophe DEJOURS & Isabelle GERNET - "Psychopathologie Du Travail"

Research in French-language ergonomics has revealed an unbridgeable gap between [the work] prescribed by the organization and the actual activity.

I wanted to highlight the existence of this irreducible gap upstream, which in this case concerns work situations and subsequently gives rise to a whole host of negative consequences—but above all because I believe that this process is not restricted to the workplace.

Not longer than last week, here is what a Substacker posted:

https://www.hackingnarcissism.com/p/mothersnotok?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

Many mothers in the West experience dissatisfaction rooted in the disparity between societal promises and their lived reality. Western culture often touts ideals of individualism, material success, and self-empowerment, yet these values frequently clash with the demands of motherhood. The promise that women can "have it all”—a thriving career, a perfect family, material comfort, and personal fulfilment—often feels hollow, leaving mothers overwhelmed and unsupported. This can be exacerbated by an unreliable spouse or partner, insufficient social support systems, fuelled by unrealistic expectations about life in general.

This looks eerily familiar with what Christophe Dejours wrote:

… familiarizing civil society with misfortune, domesticating reactions of indignation and encouraging resignation, or even constituting a psychological preparation to undergo misfortune

... empirical analysis of contemporary work situations suggests that the gap between prescribed and actual work organization can only be rationally managed through the construction of compromises

… the denial of reality, which implies an overemphasis on design and management, inevitably leads us to interpret the failures of ordinary work as the expression of incompetence, lack of seriousness, carelessness, lack of training, malice, failure or error, all down to man. This pejorative interpretation of human behavior is summed up in the notion of the “human factor”, used by specialists in safety, security, reliability and prevention. And this pejorative judgment has a painful impact on the experience [of work] of those who, as a result, are deprived of recognition, and are often even led to conceal the difficulties with which they are confronted by the real experience of the task.

THIRD CONSIDERATION

I could offer a third angle, in an effort to define this “phenomenon.”

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI found himself in the midst of the rise of communism in Poland, a situation he described as totalitarian.

His experience was as follows:

the author […] took the risks of close contact with evil and suffered the consequences

… outlining new possibilities to counteract the origin of human suffering

He studied everything he could observe—and drew conclusions from it—that could be applied to totalitarian situations of any kind.

He wrote a book and what he describes is a “phenomenon”, “a macrosocial phenomenon” that has yet no room in the natural world view because of lack of qualificatives.

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - "Political ponerology"

Today, however, the world is being jeopardized by a phenomenon which cannot be understood nor described by means of such a natural conceptual language

… a macrosocial phenomenon which has rendered our traditional scientific language completely deceptive

… a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view

There are two key points to remember here:

• there is a macrosocial phenomenon

• this phenomenon is very difficult to study because its factors are theoretical concepts that are unfamiliar in conventional worldviews

The last point is very important: this phenomenon exists, but we do not have the necessary vocabulary to even think about it—or talk about it.

It's quite unusual—but that's how it is. There is a significant gap in our theory about “the things of the world” and “the phenomena we may encounter there.”

Christophe Dejours observed that the problem stemmed from neoliberalism, which pushed managers to adopt questionable management methods.

Here, Andrew Lobaczewski, who studies communism, goes further; he tells us:

“This is a phenomenon that is not ultimately observable ideology. There is something behind communism. We need to look one level deeper.”

Something is acting like a host, hiding in ideologies, and ultimately aimed at producing a totalitarist situation.

Interested readers will find data on this subject because there is a framework studying this host—It has been identified as a “pathocracy.” This word suggests the development of the host as it hijacks an ideology:

https://palmoth.substack.com/p/what-is-a-pathocracy

And so, let us be technical here, in regard of France’s “neoliberalism” and Japan.

The official ideology of the USA, adopted in the 60’s, was “Capitalism”. This has been the organising principle - and is not something “bad” per se - until the pathocracy attacked it.

As it did, what was acting negatively was that host - not Capitalism. The result has been an exacerbation of some traits, and the inclusion of various things. Among those, “manipulating the reality gap as a managerial strategy”.

When in motion, the whole picture would be “Capitalism under the spell of a pathocratic host”. The “neoliberalist” qualificative is what has been used to describe the overall interaction.

For instance, I know of a great article specifically mentionning this aspect:

https://luctalks.substack.com/p/how-to-read-without-getting-triggered

To give an example, those who feel alienated from the power structure of the Western world use a variety of words to convey their grievances. In the US especially, people like to call what we are living through “communism” and “Marxism.” Others, more often so in Europe, talk about “global capitalism” or “financial capitalism.”

Oftentimes, the different camps use such words to express the same, deep-rooted agony towards a system that can only be described as soul-sucking oppression of all that is True, Good, and Beautiful. And yet, “communism” and “capitalism” have an entirely different meaning as far as dictionaries are concerned.

We would have to know that there exists an additional stage of existence - above the ideology. Another “layer”. The real culprit is to be found there, and depending on its functionning, basics and mode of existence, a whole could be said - or few. We now know it’s a huge whole.

The phenomenon of pathocracy attacks an ideology—any ideology—and follows a fixed pattern of development that has been identified by A. Lobaczewski.

Initially, the group is formed on the basis of some ideological foundation—“let’s form a group,” “here’s our motto.”

Then, what happens and leads the group toward gradual degradation is the development of psychopathology: this word means “deviant ideas,” and for whatever reason, this is the direction that is taken, consciously or unconsciously.

Most of the time, the initial motto is the source of this development, as it contains small seeds of deviance that can be exploited.

This was the case with communist ideology—and the reader will see where I am going with the excerpts on work that preceded this.

In short, starting from an idea of questionable quality, a negative development occurs. This is gradual, and it appears to get worse and worse. In practice, personalities with deviant psyches gradually join the group.

At one point, the initial norm, the starting group, the motto, gave way to a mono-presence of psychopathology.

This can manifest itself in several ways—but the important point is that “essential psychopaths” were drawn to this environment that was conducive to their deviant behavior.

And that is totalitarianism—one of the characteristics of which is mass murder.

Here is a brief summary of the gradual process—mentioning the different types of deviant individuals that we will encounter as we use the term “pathocracy”:

1 - schizoidy:

A schizoid, mild deviant, starts the cycle leading to a pathocracy in publicly featuring a deviant idea. Schizoids are people affected by a trouble making them have a pessimistic look at the human nature. Their basic view on humanity is “depressing” while the truth is that humanity would be in full shape without the influence of hard core psychopaths. Schizoids are normal people who have been affected by environmental factors (trauma) - but - Lobaczewski states that some may have hereditary schizoidy. We don’t know as of yet.

2 - characteropathy:

They are characterized by “absence of ability to self-criticism” & “inability to escape from dead-ends, that they enter, because of not thinking enough“.

Let’s look at it this way: schizoids formed a group - there exists a new group out there, and it appears attractive to characteropaths. That’s the organic process of psychopathological attraction / expansion.

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political ponerology”

Such “Stalinistic characters” traumatize and actively spellbind others, and their influence finds it exceptionally easy to bypass the controls of common sense.

3 - paranoids:

Enters here another form of deviants (still normal people who once faced trauma).

high degree of sense of collective responsibility, a sense of service to business or public service, even civic sense and a sense of national interest

4 - essential psychopaths

Those are hereditary deviants, that don’t “acquire” deviancy but feature it as a native buildup. Their operations & actions are so to be considered under a different light than the above fellas, few is know about this DNA condition, but it seems logical than to think of some qualitative differences at the level of the psychopathology they generate. As such, it can be said that the first three rows carry on the initial ideology - while those have different objectives and are conscious of it.

They still pop up in a context featuring a quite high level of psychopathology - their basic telos - so it appears that they kind of take things over:

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 éminence grise. In (…) unions on the largest social scales, the leadership role is generally played by a different kind of individual, one more easily digestible and representative. Examples include frontal characteropathy

5 - pathocracy

A totalitarian situation.

That’s all fine and dandy, would the reader tell me… But what does this all mean?

Keeping in mind the correlation of “the mothers of the West” and Christophe Dejours’ - illustrated by a common element, that is of “a gap” that acts over people, here, I would like to try a similar exercise.

Let us compare Lobaczewski’s model & Christophe Dejours’ model:

Lobaczewski:

1 - schizoidy: deviant idea under-featuring humanity

2 - characteropathy: “Stalinist characters”

3 - paranoids: “inconditionnal support & faith in the system”

4 - essential psychopaths

5 - pathocracy: “totalitarist state of affairs”

Dejours:

1 - Some carry on the idea that “the irreductible, reality-gap existing between theory and practice” can be overcome

2 - It instills, grows & encourages “false virility” (as a collective strategy of defense)

3 - an additional layer features “a high degree of sense of collective responsibility, a sense of service to business or public service, even civic sense and a sense of national interest, in any case a sense of supra-individual interests”

4 -

5 - A vicious circle—an “engine of evil” in motion

Let us compare some of Lobaczewski’s sayings & some of Christophe Dejours’ sayings:

Lobaczewski:

The initial step is a moral warping of the group’s ideational contents.

In analyzing the contamination of a group’s ideology, we note first of all an infiltration of foreign, simplistic, and doctrinaire contents, thereby depriving it of any healthy support for, and trust in, the necessity of understanding of human nature.

Dejours:

the discovery of the irreducible gap between the work prescribed by the organization and actual activity.

The gap between prescribed and actual organization of work can only be rationally managed by constructing compromises between distinct points of view on the functioning and state of the work process.

The process of destabilization (...) is independent of the quality of the work carried out, as well as the skills mobilized by the employee

the overvaluation of design and management inevitably leads to interpreting failures in ordinary work as the expression of incompetence, a lack of seriousness, carelessness, a lack of training, malevolence, a failure or an error, related to man

pejorative interpretation of human behavior

Lobaczewski:

whenever some unidentified psychopathological factor comes into play, the natural human world view ceases to be applicable

Our natural system of concepts and imaginings is not equipped with the necessary factual content to permit reasoned comprehension of the quality of the factors

Since a comprehension of the truly operational factors is beyond the ken of his natural world view, he generally relies on emotion: intuition and the pursuit of happiness.

Dejours:

transform the subjective relationship to [work]

This type of work generates a conflict between the activities carried out by the subject and the fact that he morally disapproves of them because they are in contradiction with his values.

This emotional work could lead to psychopathological repercussions, due to the involvement of affectivity that it involves.

Lobaczewski:

a psychological structure is created which can be considered a counterpart or caricature of the normal structure of society or a normal societal organization

Dejours:

the social reality (…) now infiltrated with pejorative spontaneous psychology & sociology, imbued with social Darwinism.

Some more:

Lobaczewski:

In general however, the carriers of various kinds of brain-tissue damage lean clearly toward the society of normal people, and as a result of their psychological problems, ultimately suffer even more than healthy people under pathocracy

• “1+2+3 generally lean towards normal people”

• “1+2+3 psychological problems”

• “1+2+3 suffer a lot”

Dejours:

It is these people, initially good people, defending themselves against the suffering (…) who then become the defenders (…) and who fuel (…)

the enlistment of good people in evil

committing acts that one disapproves of

• “1+2+3, good people”

• “1+2+3, defending themselves… become … fuel”

• “1+2+3 suffer a lot”

Some more - “three stages”:

Lobaczewski:

Approximately 6% of the population constitutes the active structure of the new rulership, which carries its own peculiar consciousness of its own goals.

The 6% group constitute the new nobility

Twice as many people constitute a second group: those who have managed to warp their personalities to meet the demands of the new reality.

This second group consists of individuals who are, on the average, weaker, more sickly, and less vital

submissive attitude toward the regime, their greater susceptibility to pathological effects, and their skittish opportunism

[this] 12% group gradually forms the new bourgeoisie, whose economic situation is the most advantageous. Adapting to the new conditions, not without conflicts of conscience, transforms this latter group into both dodgers and, simultaneously, intermediaries between the oppositional society and the active ponerological group, whom they can talk to in the appropriate language. They play such a crucial role within this system that both sides must take them into account. Since their technical capacities and skills are better than those of the active pathocratic group, they assume various managerial positions.

The great majority of the population forms the society of normal people, gradually creating an informal communications network. It behooves us to wonder why these people reject the advantages conformity affords, consciously preferring the opposing role: poverty, harassment, and curtailment of human freedoms

Dejours:

The first tier consists of the leaders of neoliberal doctrine and the concrete organization of evil work in the theater of operations. The most typical psychological profile is represented by a perverse or paranoid personality organization.

The second level consists of direct collaborators, close to or on the ground of operations. The mental structures here are very diverse. Their unification, coordination, and active participation are achieved through collective strategies and defense ideologies. Here, defense is the driving force of engagement, not desire (a collective defense strategy of virile cynicism).

Finally, the third tier is made up of the mass of those who resort to individual defense strategies against fear. The unification of these strategies, which results in mass consent to injustice, is ensured by the common use of stereotypical rationalization content made available to them by the strategy of communication distortion.

The similarity is striking to say the least and I believe that they see the same things.

• Dejours stated that neoliberalism went full flegde and triggering troubles.

• Lobaczewski tells us about “pathocracy”:

However, no one has ever managed to identify it objectively because it would hide in one of the ideologies characteristic of the respective culture and era, developing in the very bosom of different social movements. Identification was so difficult

I suppose that neoliberalism was suffering from such process; a person knowledgeable on those matters recently said that “the pathocracy which was infecting Capitalism died”:

Additional notes:

Dejours binds what he sees to neoliberalism; I believe that it’s actually not the top-end of it. Neoliberalism has to be seen as a vehicle, hosting an additional “entity”, manifesting via it, through it - so neoliberalism is more like a facade of some sort, for an entity that actually hops from one ideology to another.

If Dejours would carry on his study 50 years ago, or during the last century, I believe he would have spotted the very same specs, because he was studying evil. The ideology becomes interchangeable.

Such phenomenon has been quite well described by Lobaczewski:

If, in order to designate a pathological phenomenon, we accept the name furnished by the ideology of a social movement which succumbed to degenerative processes, we lose any ability to understand or evaluate that ideology and its original contents or to effect proper classification of the phenomenon, per se. This error is not semantic; it is the keystone of all other comprehension errors regarding such phenomena, rendering us intellectually helpless, and depriving us of our capacity for purposeful, practical action.

Luctalks speaks about the moment we would be tempted to label it according to the name that the ideology provides:

If we accept the model of language I outlined here, then it becomes clear why there are so many emotionally charged misunderstandings, especially when it comes to politics and religion. Essentially, we get triggered and fail to connect to the thought form the other person wants us to connect to.

To give an example, those who feel alienated from the power structure of the Western world use a variety of words to convey their grievances. In the US especially, people like to call what we are living through “communism” and “Marxism.” Others, more often so in Europe, talk about “global capitalism” or “financial capitalism.”

Oftentimes, the different camps use such words to express the same, deep-rooted agony towards a system that can only be described as soul-sucking oppression of all that is True, Good, and Beautiful.

Luctalks states that humans basically work according to “connection to thought-form complexes”, that it’s a forgotten way; as it stopped being active, he illustrates the deficit via the example of Marxism.

The above is an indication that there may be something “common” that would be best considered as “soul-sucking oppression of all that is True, Good, and Beautiful“.

It differs from “it’s Marxism”.

Luctalks expressely states that we are staring at the same thing (“to express the same, deep-rooted agony“).

this is not about definitions. It is about the connection to much more far-reaching concepts that are grasped with our whole being

It requires to “see” the “object”, which appears to be “a phenomenon”; we could simply look at the idea that “it’s actually not all there is” because “some spotted something” and that “there exists an additional stage to consider”.

Lobaczewski describes a host hiding inside ideologies, and, the same all the time.

Quite challenging for the world view which sees everything in terms of surface features.

Luctalks has been scattering clues among his fascinating articles:

LucTalks

Hitler, the Ultimate Rorschach Test

We can’t help but view history through the lens of our most deeply held beliefs…

Read more

2 years ago · 231 likes · 51 comments · L.P. Koch

Which brings us to another neglected angle from which to look at history.

As various Hitler biographers have noted: throughout his career, Hitler seems to have been followed by a strange sort of luck that kept him from going under at various junctures.

It’s as if a sort of Telos subtly gestates and imposes a certain form on historical epochs, a certain Gestalt.

This kind of teleological understanding of history isn’t as far out as we moderns tend to believe.

A different historical approach, initially conflictual with our world view, and triggering the sight of an additional actor. The real object of study becomes what Luctalks qualifies as “a sort of telos”, “a certain Gestalt”.

It is not wrong than to reach “neoliberalism”, like Dejours does, but the fact remains that there exists an additional stage for consideration. Dejours’ findings don’t stop being relevant becuase of it. This seems to be due to an overall scope on evil / “genesis of evil”. What Dejours did was overall “ponerology” (science of the study of evil) with the help of psychiatry. He set the priority on “evil”, walking blind without expectations, and his psychiatric skills allowed him to untangle things.

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - "Political ponerology"

Such matters should be taught to everyone in order to facilitate auto-pedagogical self-monitoring.

Let us have a quick look at a recent article, stating a quote:

https://fr.sott.net/article/44342-Tout-cela-va-se-terminer-dans-l-autodestruction

"For economic organizations, but also nowadays for political organizations and generally for religious organizations, the desire to dominate others, to conquer, to command, to seize, to subjugate, to manipulate, to exploit, on a global, national, corporate or family scale, is an objectively inevitable tendency that has always been the main driving force of collective, even individual, history."

That’s what we see, how we see things.

In the light of Lobaczewski’s teachings, I would say: what about…

There is a hidden actor / factor acting on the behalf of "Economic organizations, but also nowadays for political organizations and generally for religious organizations”, yielding the desire to dominate others, to conquer, to command, to seize, to subjugate, to manipulate, to exploit, on a global, national, corporate or family scale, is an objectively inevitable tendency that has always been the main driving force of collective, even individual, history."

That’s in order to get to the root cause.

That’s not the structures of normal people who are the culprit - most buildings, Justice, Social structures, are just empty shells initially meant to serve a community.

Those are in turns infiltrated by negative individuals who then make the worst out of it.

We saw people taking down statues - front attacking the system. Taking down society’s backbone, structures, initially meant and built by & for normal people, would not adress the top-end culprit.

It would not destroy it, and such would just manifest back on another form, at another place, I suppose.

The above quote is far from being wrong, in the sense that it sticks the finger on a problem; it may still be at the level of “symptoms”; see:

<> symptoms <> real root cause

Cross-referencing the manipulation of "the irreconciliable gap"

I am relaying the findings of C. DEJOURS, who highlights a widespread and extremely common type of “bad” organization, based on the conscious leveraging of “an irreconciliable gap”.

This is a negative organizational principle that only serves managers. It does not seem to be restricted to the world of work and could be applicable in other contexts requiring a hierarchical structure and the definition of organizational principles (design, execution). Think of a company as an example—but also any authority.

When the authorities decide to use a management method such as the one explained in my article, a whole chain of negative consequences ensues.

This article examines the aspect of defense by people subject to this organization—and more specifically, the concept of “resistance.”

Resistance of good people confronted by “the evil scheme”

It appears that this component is, unfortunately, also “under control” (we observe a “scheme of evil” as the basic guiding concept of a company).

I wrote this article because the following quote caught my attention

https://shs.cairn.info/revue-nouvelle-revue-de-psychosociologie-2009-1-page-225?lang=fr

There are several meanings of resistance and several ambiguities that we can try to clear up. The resistance of reality, or reality as resistance to control, which is really an essential concept in psychodynamics at work, is not within the scope of what we are discussing here about resistance.

Insofar as it is rather the experience through which reality is instantiated in the relationship

Under control, managed too

In such a relationship where the management confronts the worker with an impossible equation - the worker will not precisely experience “resistance to reality” - this may be a way to look at it, and as well, as stated, it’s not “reality which starts to answer to the problem, in opposing resistance”… Resistance, because of an artificial & evil scheme, is “instantiated” - some how packed as “the experience through which reality is instantiated”. This suggests a high level of duplicity & knowledge.

This serves one goal:

Ultimately, truth comes in a paradoxical form, that of failure

Initially, work was about growth and self-accomplishment:

How does this failure become the starting point for work, for the mobilization of a particular intelligence that initiates the process which, through work, can eventually lead to the production of knowledge?

There is a mecanism of “perversion” (inversion):

So, work and subjectivity come before the production of knowledge. This is a fundamental epistemological reversal

Resistance becomes embed in the generic process of “instantiation of reality” - and so, the experience of work becomes something else.

if we accept the experience of reality as something that cannot be known other than through the experience of work…

The result is simply unacceptable:

…then it is the status and theory of knowledge that must be reversed.

When 1+1=3, somehow…

Christophe DEJOURS, a French occupational psychologist, observed how people mainly considered the damage and difficulties from the perspective of “suicides”: the natural view of the world is more or less structured in such a way that we say to ourselves, “Yes, sometimes situations are so difficult, and sometimes a truly unhappy person who loses their job commits suicide.”

I have written an article that exposes a little-known reality in terms of suffering in the modern workplace:

Cross-referencing the manipulation of "the irreconciliable gap"

I am relaying the findings of C. DEJOURS, who highlights a widespread and extremely common type of “bad” organization.

It is possible to observe a generic model that can be applied to contexts other than “the workplace.”

This article deals with the component of “artificial reality” as a spec of this “evil scheme” - thanks to a contribution from C. DEJOURS.

The intellectual journey allows me to observe a generic characteristic that may be relating to the model of “the evil scheme”—and I will come to this at the end of this article.

However, I wanted to keep the two articles separate—perhaps it would be more objective to bring the data together.

https://institut.fsu.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/dejours.pdf

The media show us suicides but not work

Common world views are missing something - while still experiencing it full-fledge.

People no longer know how to talk about work: they lack the words

No wonder that people would salute AI and machines - too much suffering.

Here are some interesting takes:

For example, if we dismantle zeal, we have the elements to break free from symbolic domination.

To reverse the situation, we need to think about the relationship between domination and the struggle for emancipation, and how all this is reflected in work organizations, total quality, and the conditions for its certification. Total quality is a theoretical misinterpretation.

Those who work must always deal with something that is not provided for in the prescription.

An artificial environnment, hard to spot

Unusual events popping up - new instances. When “the scheme” is active, we must remind ourselves that the environnment is dual:

1. Normal reality, as it should be

2. An artificial environment, like a layer hovering things, in which artificial stimuli alternatively pop up, mimicking naturality of events. That’s where “we deal with something not provided for in the prescription”.

“Prescribed” things

So let’s keep an eye on “the prescription” and what is the alleged “norm” that the environnement features. Because we are made to believe that the norm is a match with the basic reality - when it’s not.

This looks like the buildup of an alternate reality of some sort.

A key for identifying this, seems thus “something not provided for in the description”.

In practice, this shall amount to endless new odd & bugging and variability of occurences - still seemingly potentially belonging to “the environnment”.

Prescription is embed in an artificial environment

In so, the environnment sets the stage in term of reasonable expectations and shall oscillate at the level of acceptability.

The goal is “Total quality” - namely that we all the time yield an answer according to “what’s obviously an acceptable normalized environnment”… (Obviously is the culprit, then.)

Total quality requires cheating and fraud to fill out paperwork. But fraud breaks people; we betray ourselves and betray the rules of the profession.

A broad model?

I intended to make this article the illustration of a broader “model” - human beings stumbling upon this failure-model everywhere…

The ordinary sane mind, “manipulated to go elsewhere”… Compelled to “betray the rules of the profession“… This is what it is all about, then.

Monopolizing the energy intended to deal with the ordinary, sane & logical reality - and endlessly spending it on artificial “somethings”.

Those who work must always deal with something that is not provided for in the prescription.

The premise of action is that if people think differently, they act differently.

Total quality requires … we betray ourselves and betray the rules of the profession.

Enthusiasm is being destroyed everywhere with this absurdity.

And the system only works because everyone is led to lie to themselves and to others.

it's an organized lie

At some level, let us stick with the basics - caring and monitoring our level of enthusiasm, because it is an ultimate target.

And this, my friends, is military-grade mind control:

https://archive.org/details/mind-war-by-michael-a.-aquino/MindWar%2C%20by%20Michael%20A.%20Aquino

Michael Aquino - «MindWar»

12. PSYCON #12:

Magic, is the manipulation of the perceptions of the other party so that he first redefines the problem and its issues for himself, then draws conclusions as to the reality and options available based on that redefinition. In short, if the ostensible problem appears to be unsolvable, change it into one which is. In creating such an alternative, the MFB magician unobtrusively introduces a scenario which addresses the actual problem without seeming to, and this is accomplished not by lying to or deceiving those involved, but by presenting them with impressions that lead them to such interpretations and conclusions by themselves.

p.126-128

a. Either control of the environment or adaptation of the magic to it.

Only the simplest “table tricks” of magic can be done without regard to their surroundings. For most illusions to be effective, the complete environment in which they are activated must be controlled: lighting, absence or presence of external noise, intentional distractions from close attention, audience alertness and receptiveness. While an illusion is intended to appear spontaneous, it frequently requires careful advance preparation out of view of the eventual audience.

b. Establishment of the magician’s dominant relationship.

The magician displays a persona, assertive speech, body language, pressured pace, eye contact - designed to seize and hold the attention of the audience, as well as to gradually but inexorably replace their wills and judgment of reality with his own

c. Dictation of the applicable elements.

The magician identifies to the audience what objects, locations, and/or procedures are important and essential, restricting the problem to their interaction exclusively.

The consequence of this is that an object’s behavior which might seem unremarkable or contrived against ordinary backgrounds or points of reference becomes surprising and inexplicable in this artificial environment.

d. Definition of the variables.

An object or procedure may be used in any number of ways, but the magician defines them so as to limit these ways to only those which make possible and reinforce the illusion.

e. Instruction of behavior.

Audience participation is desirable, since going through motions to supposedly produce the illusion suggests to the audience that it is somewhat responsible for it, thus encouraging belief in it.

f. Limitation of possibilities.

As he controls all of the object(s) and procedure(s) variables, the magician can force the outcome of the illusion into one which the equally-predetermined alternatives appear to highlight as miraculous.

g. Channeling of expectations.

Once in control of both the elements of the illusion and the audience’s perceptions and willpower, the magician instructs the audience in what the possible outcomes of the illusion can be. It is now “impossible” for the objects or procedures to function in any other way, nor for the audience to devise or consider one.

h. Interpretation of the result.

Once the illusion is produced, the magician makes it clear to the audience what it “obviously” signifies. As in his initial establishment of control over the audience, he now implants - though announcement, emotional surprise/ satisfaction, and body language - their presumedly “spontaneous” reaction.

i. Reinforcement of controlled perceptions.

As necessary to establish the performed illusion firmly in “reality”, the magician follows it up with as many supporting devices and created impressions as are necessary. Beyond these basics MW is most specifically concerned with the magical discipline of mentalism.

This involves diversion of target audience perceptions and interpretations towards a different interpretation of their own thought processes than the one which they would naturally experience. This is accomplished both through the above-listed techniques of magic and appropriate activation and blending of the previous eleven SLIMC PSYCONS. Every possible external and psychological factor is controlled and administered to not only reconfigure the subject’s thought-processes, but to leave undisturbed his belief that absolutely no such external influence is occurring.

I think that at this point in the reading, there is a specific risk of saying to oneself, “So there you have it!”

I would like to offer further thoughts on this phenomenon, which I have observed in turn:

• firstly, in modern forms of business management—also extended to “all management of any kind”

• as a technical guide for military personnel specializing in mind control

The overall problem is that we humans are simply getting fooled and treated like disposable cattle. This is, of course, innacceptable and the people in charge have been betraying us.

As Harrison KOEHLI noted in the following two articles...

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/when-protecting-national-security

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/the-long-road-of-degeneration

Worldview warfare is just … a symptom than anything

I’ve been reading a book by Joseph P. Farrell lately

First, however, here is the passage that got my attention:

It is important to understand that psychological warfare operations developed during World War Two largely as a response to the totalitarian system of Nazi Germany, and its ideological understanding that psychological warfare was a “World View Warfare” [Weltanschauungskrieg]

…

He quotes Christopher Simpson, who wrote:

William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, then the director of the newly established U.S. intelligence agency Office of Strategic Services (OSS), viewed an understanding of Nazi psychological tactics as a vital source of ideas for ‘Americanized’ versions of many of the same stratagems. Use of the new term [“psychological warfare”] quickly became widespread throughout the U.S. intelligence community.

Official Western society today is practically 100% worldview warfare

We can observe this in regard of:

• the implementation of damaging management techniques, in companies

• the use of the mind control techniques, by the military, on the population

Both simply manipulate “some irreconsiliable gap”, lead us astray, etc, believing in themselves as being some “"efficient magicians”.

One big big problem here has to deal with the genesis of evil - a quite unknown phenomenon which has been studied by Andrew Lobaczewski - a Polish psy. He expressed how evil was some sort of “continuum” - and Harrison KOEHLI stated it very clearly, as follows:

"... when your institution adopts the psychological methods of psychopathy, you open it to institutional capture by actual psychopaths... "

"... When you adopt the means of a psychopathic enemy, you put yourself within the “gravity well” of a ponerogenic telon or attractor..."

You see - there is a problem: we are being enslaved by some sort of “alternate reality”-magician stuff, done by skillful and powerful military people. This is impossible to deal with, is exhausting and it affects the psyche of ordinary people, citizen, at a high level.

But.

This, too, has to deal with the evil that those guys are attracting:

"... When you adopt the means of a psychopathic enemy, you put yourself within the “gravity well” of a ponerogenic telon or attractor..."

That’s one “law of evil” - evil attracts evil.

What those guys are doing is that while they believe that their cozy condition would allow them to pursue endlessly in addicting citizen through the manipulation of sources of tension - they are as well constituting “a litteral pit of evil” around themselves - and, we shall say it - at the level of their military structure - so government ultimately.

This is more or less what has been taking place during Biden’s - and why people spotted Haïtians eating their pet cats in Springfield, Ohio.

This magnetizing mecanism has been called “ponerization” and the word is used in the context of “the growth of a pathocracy” - the ultimate condition where “evil” dominates, after too much telon-ization:

"... If you adopt the psychological techniques of a pathocracy, you’ll probably end up adopting the psychology (and psychological demographics) of a pathocracy..."

This leads us to ponder the following quote, by Harrison KOEHLI, because he identifies, too, the Intel Services as the culprit for much trouble in our world:

If I had to pick a prime candidate on which to place the blame, I wouldn’t choose “the universities” or “the politicians” or even “the managerial class.” The causal links of ponerogenesis are many and complex, and to some degree everyone shares a portion of the blame. But my money is on the intelligence agencies for pushing us over the edge. Not the analysts, or even the covert operatives and counterintelligence personnel. Some no doubt played a role, but I’m talking about the strategists. The guys like Donovan, Dulles, Angleton, and more whose names we’ll probably never know, who grabbed the tiger by the tail and convinced themselves they were gods in the process. By doing so, they set a process in motion that will be difficult to stop.

They opened the door.

That’s where my sentence - “I think that at this point in the reading, there is a specific risk of saying to oneself, “So there you have it!”“ - leads to much more than “just the military”.

Those appear as some very end chain link, yeah, but one aspect is that it’s starting ther ethat “evil” will start to manifest. From there, on, we would have to study all the “Pathocracy” model - which is huge - and this constitutes a whole successive framework.

Let me, too, add one word in regard of the above quote:

They opened the door.

Much to ponder in Harrion KOEHLI’s articles. Additional perspectives.

And it turns out that Lobaczewski’s model, whose basic scope is about “psychopathology”, can be of help when pondering the issue of the irreducible gap that ordinary people have to deal with:

• psychopathology = psyche affected by a pathology

• psychopathology, considered like “evil” - that would be what evil ultimately is

• manifesting itself THROUGH the managers, the managing techniques - and as well through the military

Overall, the spread of a polarization to evil. Much acts as “vectors”. I believe it’s improtant to make such distinctions for a study. That’s why, when we read the D’Aquino manual, we would be tempted to feel “found the ultimate stuff”.

As Christophe Dejours said:

if we dismantle zeal, we have the elements to break free from symbolic domination.

This would be a starting point! The kicker is that the artificial environment, along with artificial stimulis occuring inside, make us act as if we were in some real setting… Usually, we would use “zeal” - “doing our best”. I understand decreasing our tendency to zeal would be a good way.

People in touch with Lobaczewski’s work would find this familiar with his takes on “moralization”: a confrontation with a psychopath, or with psychopathology should avoid the “moralization tool” at whatever cost. The reason is that it is ultimately not applicable to the nature of the phenomenon which has to be dealt with. Another “tool” would be required, in order to “reach the goal”. Seems a bit the same, here.

Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

Christophe DEJOURS & Isabelle GERNET - "Psychopathologie Du Travail"

Research in French-language ergonomics has revealed an unbridgeable gap between [the work] prescribed by the organization and the actual activity.

https://books.google.com.cu/books?id=BkYeDAAAQBAJ

In fact, there is always a gap between what is prescribed and the concrete reality of the situation. This gap between what is prescribed and what is actually done can be found at all levels of analysis between technique and activity.

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

Work is never limited to carrying out instructions or orders given by management.

Working involves... a duty to rethink the objectives to be achieved (the task) and the path to be taken to try to achieve them (the activity).

It can be demonstrated through multiple approaches that total quality is impossible.

There is an irreconcilable gap between forecasts, method planning, and specifications on the one hand, and actual or concrete work on the other. Contrary to what many doctrines claim, there is never perfect production in work.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/sotra_0038-0296_1994_hos_36_1_2147

Irreductible gap between design and execution

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At work, there is theory—it should be an ideal because reality will NEVER be perfectly contractual.

Let us highlight here the idea of an “irreducible gap.”

https://www.persee.fr/doc/sotra_0038-0296_1994_hos_36_1_2147

The resistance of reality, which manifests itself through failure, creates suffering, which is all the greater when it is denied.

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This gap will naturally yields a conflict with “the real”. Without going further, we see a “resistance of reality”

Reality does not work like that. Won’t work.

Logically, it yields “failure”.

Enters “failure mode”.

The failure mode will kick in and it will yield “suffering”.

Suffering appears.

IF the existence of the gap is denied - for whatever reason - the above will take place and this is precisely what we are looking at in this article.

The commitment to ignoring an irreducible gap, amounting to a denial of reality, sometimes takes place and triggers the above.

Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

Christophe DEJOURS & Isabelle GERNET - "Psychopathologie Du Travail"

Rationally managing the adjustment of the organization [of work]...

The gap between the prescribed and actual organization of work can only be rationally managed by building compromises between different points of view on the functioning and status of the work process.

Rationally managing the adjustment of work organization therefore requires building compromises after deliberation between opinions and views.

This presupposes the existence of a “space for discussion.”

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

The quality of the discussion space depends fundamentally on choices made in terms of work organization and the design of relationships between work, work organization, and corporate governance

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It could be technically possible to alleviate the gap - the gap remains a reality but it may be possible to find a way.

A commitment to rationality is possible, has to be implemented by the managers

This would be made possible in one case:

when authority is associated with professional competence, knowledge, and recognition of work

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Sine qua non condition.

Such rationality can happen only if the authority is associated with professional competence, knowledge and recognition of work (“is associated”, as in “IS straight reflective of”).

The confrontation of opinions is fraught with many practical difficulties (...) which are sources of communication distortion.

Among the disorders that hamper communication are:

• deliberate disruptions of the space for discussion

• some of which amount to outright lies.

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And here, that’s where the decision to “go denial” / “go reality-conflict“ sometimes takes place…

Well - managers not associated with professional competence.

Or managers not associatd ith knowledge of work - or not associated with a positive will towards their employees.

Various reasons exist - and the above quote hints at “outright lies” too.

A shift towards a negative situation can occur.

Note: We may think of this more broadly than just the work place - it has to deal with the context of organizing principles out of a managerial / hierarchical setting.

We seek to characterize a particular form of distortion

a process of destabilization by the company

that is not only intentional, but strategic

This discourse is not the result of misjudgment or naivety, but of duplicity

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However, there are some ill-intentioned managers who go against what reality says. As seen before, responsibility vary.

Management commits itself against the principles of reality.

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

By imposing total quality

Advertise total quality, not as a goal, but as a constraint

For the company, the psychological characteristics of individuals mostly function as a lever of work power

The process of destabilization (...) is independent of the quality of the work carried out, as well as the skills mobilized by the employee

describing production (manufacturing or service) based on results and not on the activities from which they originate. This is the first characteristic. The second consists of constructing a description that relies only on positive results and successes and lies, therefore by omission, by not mentioning what constitutes a defect or failure. Producing this discourse is not the result of an error of judgment or naivety, but of duplicity.

producing discursive practices

Managers define total quality as a constraint

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

generates a whole series of adverse effects that can have disastrous consequences

a series of incidences, to which insufficient attention is paid

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nasty stuff

Nasty stuff.

Denial of reality [of work] forms the basis of distortion

generally associated with denial of suffering [in relation to work]

denial of reality ... involves overvaluing design and management inevitably leads to interpreting failures [in ordinary work] as expressions of incompetence, lack of seriousness, carelessness, lack of training, malice, failure, or error on the part of man.

This pejorative interpretation of human behavior is summarized in the concept of the “human factor,” used by specialists in safety, security, reliability, and prevention.

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

... power exercised without violence can nevertheless generate violence in those who are subject to that power

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Workers are essentially confronted with a phenomenon of “denial of reality.”

The whole process tend to lead employees to carry on a “pejorative interpretation of basic human behavior”.

Wihtout having done anything... Human beings - the concept of human beings itself - somehow becomes problematic.

Human nature is perceived as being the “source of the problem.”

I am going to jump some steps (the process triggers a sort of loop - alienation) and report C. Dejours take on all of this.

Christophe DEJOURS does not mince his words... Here, he identifies the evil at work (and he is not wrong); he expresses this by recalling a definition of “evil.”

We refer to all such behavior as “evil” when it is:

• established as a system of leadership, command, organization, or management, i.e., when it involves everyone as victims, perpetrators, or both victims and perpetrators alternately or simultaneously

• public, commonplace, conscious, deliberate, accepted, or claimed, rather than clandestine, occasional, or exceptional, or even when they are considered valuable.

The problem posed is therefore that of enlisting good people in evil, as a management system, as an organizational principle.

management methods specifically associated with economic neoliberalism

http://cinik.free.fr/chlo/doc%20dans%20biblio,%20non%20imprim%C3%A9s/travail/violence,%20Travail,%20emploi,%20sant%C3%A9.pdf

Clinical analysis of the causes of increased mental illness in the workplace ultimately points to organizational causes.

Let us look at the fact that this relies on the commitment to a specific and damaging organization - and that it is fundamentally evil. We may look for different qualificatives, but this is it.

Evil organization.

I wanted to illustrate a basic conflict arising from the confrontation (in this case, deliberate—with a “dishonest” component) between two irreconcilable principles, illustrated here in the world of work.

There is the human, natural aspect—what humans can reasonably achieve.

There is also a “supernatural” aspect—management techniques that seek to exceed what is possible.

Let us now consider David Ray GRIFFIN, who discusses the supposedly irreconcilable conflict between “religious” worldviews and “scientific” worldviews.

Without going into detail, David Ray GRIFFIN, in his book, finds that these two worldviews are not in fact irreconcilable. This excerpt therefore appears in the context of an “apparent” “irreconcilable conflict.”

This is so as not to misrepresent his book... What matters is the structure of the quotation, observing the two “roots of conflict.”

Here, we are talking about religion and science.

I think that this excerpt could be useful in another context. So, I dissected the excerpt and used “A” for “science” and ‘B’ for “religion”—in the hope of finding a pattern.

Here is the result:

(Did my best - not perfect at all - Can be greatly improved - Sorry about that!)

Let's look at the first “root cause”—basically, this refers to:

• a commitment by B

• to a supernaturalism

• that conflicts with

• the naturalism

• presupposed by A

I find that this is not too far removed from the “pattern” that operates in the world of work... I briefly attempted to find a theoretical correspondence:

• a commitment by B

[some managers decide to implement management techniques…]

• to a supernaturalism

[ignoring the irreducible gap existing between prescribed task & real activity…]

• that conflicts with

[it goes straight against logic]

• the naturalism

[reality itself]

• presupposed by A

[humans]

I note that what David GRIFFIN says could correspond to what Christophe DEJOURS observed.

A theoretical “pivotal” element is a supernatural aspect that conflicts with a natural aspect.

A second component is “a commitment”—either a decision to go ahead with it, or an imposition, a dictatorship.

We could also observe the consequence, which is a kind of alienation—a negative (psychological) configuration.

David GRIFFIN adds the following excerpt below:

Here we find “human freedom” opposed to “evil”.

The process described by Christophe DEJOURS has been identified as “evil at work.”

We refer to all such behavior as “evil”

process of destabilization by the company

not only intentional, but strategic

enlisting good people in evil, as a management system, as an organizational principle

One clue—or restriction specific to the context studied by David GRIFFIN—is human “freedom.”

The gap between theory and actual activity at work is irreconcilable. However, it is possible to “overcome” it by means of “compromises.” This does not change its irreconcilable nature.

What David GRIFFIN describes are two seemingly irreconcilable worldviews. I am not knowledgeable enough on the subject to determine whether this is also a “technically irreconcilable conflict”—or whether it would be possible in the first place. In any case, David GRIFFIN expresses that it is possible for science and religion to overcome their antagonism.

It could be that in David Griffin's case – “a conflict that is only seemingly irreconcilable” – evil is opposed to “human freedom” – whereas in a context such as that described by Christophe Dejours, it is something other than “human freedom.”

I have no idea, and we would need to examine the process described by Christophe DEJOURS to identify whether it is really “human freedom” that is compromised at the end of the conflict mechanism. It seems that it is human nature itself that is being “called into question”:

… inevitably leads to interpreting failures [in ordinary work] as expressions of incompetence, lack of seriousness, carelessness, lack of training, malice, failure, or error on the part of man. This pejorative interpretation of human behavior

Here is a third excerpt from David Griffin's book:

David GRIFFIN argues that modern science has not been able to provide humans with any semblance of freedom because its naturalistic scope is based on a view of “nature” that is limited to the idea of “object-matter” / “four elements.”

The field of “nature” in science should, for example, consider more aspects - experience, spontaneity, for example.

A striking conception here is “human unit”: devoid of the consideration of its intrinsic human qualities, humans become mere “objects”.

I would like to quote a text by Christophe DEJOURS in which he discusses the origin of the management methods adopted by a malicious company:

Christophe DEJOURS - “Travail, usure mentale - De la psychopathologie à la psychodynamique du travail“

However, it is also important to highlight the repercussions of the Taylor system on physical health. As a new technology for subjugating the body and imposing discipline, the scientific organization of work gave rise to previously unknown physiological constraints, particularly those related to time and work pace. The performance requirements were entirely new and made the body the main target of the harmful effects of work.

Physical exhaustion no longer affects only manual laborers, but all workers in mass production. By radically separating intellectual and manual labor, the Taylor system neutralizes the mental activity of workers.

In doing so, it is not the psyche that appears to be the primary victim of the system, but rather the docile and disciplined body, unhindered by the demands of work organization, the methods engineer, and the hierarchical command structure. A defenseless body, an exploited body, a body weakened by the dispossession of its natural protector, the mind.

We observe the man who becomes subject to a kind of “object-ification”.

There is an interview with a French psychologist on ponerology; I wrote a few lines about this interview because it highlights the principle of “perversion”—that is, “the inversion of values.”

Here is something interesting from the selected lines:

https://palmoth.substack.com/p/perversion

Perversion has two main objectives:

• dehumanization

• self-destruction

Dehumanization, which is a loss of reference to inner unity, occurs through a kind of de-subjectivization: people become objects; there is an abandonment of consideration as a subject, with a history (and so on).

You know, I'm not a psychologist and I don't have any qualifications... Writing coherent and objective lines is a kind of challenge for me.

I thought I saw something here:

• A conflict with reality

• Artificially produced

• Via the clash of the two entities of an irreducible gap

• The ultimate victim is humans and human nature

• the “healthy” psyche becomes “the root trouble”

The problem, in this artificial management technique is that it leverages a sane & normal feature of the mind - the perception of reality.

This is not the first article I write on this specific topic - “the irreconciliable gap”, faced by humans.

This present article of mine - “The evil scheme #1” got two follow-ups:

• "The evil scheme #2"

• "The evil scheme #3"

Some time ago, I tried to lay down a general sum-up of some findings, in the context of what seems to be a common problem:

https://palmoth.substack.com/p/a-false-human-condition

In another article, I explore the “people-pleasing” mecanism, showing how it may be due to the same motiom:

https://palmoth.substack.com/p/the-people-pleasing-mecanism-is-a

It all started as I once found a quote illustrating best the generic motion of “the irreconciliable gap”, describing it as follows:

Rudolf Steiner - “Lucifer and Ahriman“

Human beings are dwellers in two worlds. Our uniqueness amongst the creatures of the earth lies in this role that we have as half beast and half angel.

A dynamic tension exists because of the contrary demands which living in each of these realms places on us.

We experience this on a daily basis, an internal tug-of-war, pulling first in one direction, then to the opposite pole.

I have been exploring this angle in my posts.

For the moment, ALL my posts (well, almost all of them) describe, to a greater or lesser extent, what appears to be, indeed, the human condition.

That is - some second-hand condition. Humans who see their initially healthy psyche as being “affected by something.”

So I list the symptoms on my blog, narrowing it down to a generical manipulation of “whatever irreconciliable gap”— People-pleasers, etc, ultimately see a root level of some sort going by:

A dynamic tension exists because of the contrary demands

This is surely not the top-end of it - but I have been finding it appreciable than to be able to spot some relatively “rooting” cause. Some “Mother of all symptoms” so to speak. I am not even sure that it’s close to something - but keep track of this and try to write about it.

This article is the last, and I am happy to have been able to gather my thoughts.

Special thanks to Harrison KOEHLI who pointed me out to David Ray GRIFFIN - a lot of interesting ideas; for instance:

• "Two forces opposed to each others"

• "Various reactions when confronted by seemingly opposing forces"

• "The conflict thesis"

I believe that much can be found at the level of “the conflict thesis”, within its broad consideration. This present article, “the evil scheme #1” is a straight following-up of this road, so an effort to precisely follow-up on “the conflict thesis”.

Conclusion

My conclusion is as follows: it seems that the conflict described in this article is something generic. I have tried to highlight some of its components, as generically as possible, so that it can be used as a model in different contexts of “damage”—for the sake of prevention and healing.

I don't know if this is the case; any good philosophical approach must be tested in different contexts in order to prove its validity.

One generic model would go as follows:

• a commitment by B

• to a supernaturalism

• that conflicts with

• the naturalism

• presupposed by A

° The “commitment” word seems key here as the whole would be a motion started by some “commitment” - “free-will” may be suitable. We have been noticing how companies would simply “opt” for very damaging organizing principles.

° We find the “irreducible gap” existing at the level of “supernaturalism” and “naturalism”: within the above model, this is how the irreconciliable gap is expressed.

I have been mapping models when I felt it could be done - here is one which describes the above irreducible gap in term of naturalism / supernaturalism:

"Genesis of evil in society"

This is a very short sum-up - and I have been trying to illustrate that as society features approx. 94% of “normal people”, the existence of pathological types constitutes an “ab-norm”.

The problem here is that psychopaths do have an extremely high and powerful influence on normal people - some speak of a buildup akin to demonic possession (see this article too).

This illustrates the natural norm - ordinary people, setting the norm:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - "Political ponerology"

After all, psychologically normal people constitute both the great statistical majority and the real base of societal life in each community. According to natural law, they should thus be the ones to set the pace; moral law is derived from their nature. Power should be in the hands of normal people.

And the influence over the natural “state of reality”, by “psychopaths” in this instance of my post “the genesis of evil in society”, precisely fits the definition of “supernaturalism” - in term of super (“over” or “extraordinary”) naturalism.

I am here considering the broad meaning of David GRIFFIN’s model in term of “not the natural norm”. We may be tempted to look at “supernatural” in the Hollywoodian sense of the word. I believe it is a different approach if we are to respect David GRIFFIN’s idea, because we would be able to analyze whatever element, look for it’s naturality (something that which could vary) - and then look for the culprit at the level of it’s “supernatural counterpart”.

In addition, we perfectly see that the Hollywoodian aspect of supernaturalism is not that far.

Anyway, this article is not really exhaustive because it focuses on only one of the two root causes identified by David GRIFFIN:

I would need to elaborate the bullet list:

• a commitment by B

• to a supernaturalism

• that conflicts with

• the naturalism

• presupposed by A

For the second cause present in the above screen capture.

This remains to be done! I have been rushing to write this post, and the second root cause is not difficult to understand; seems to me it has to deal with the level of perception of the negative mecanism. A pretty interesting angle, which constitutes a second aspect to be factored in. I hope to do that one day.

This article therefore represents a hypothesis; I do not claim to have found the ultimate source of the problem—this whole conflict is just a symptom at the end of a chain of something much larger. It may be interesting to study it within the context of other frameworks such as Ian McGilchrist’s “mono-left-brain condition”.

However, in terms of the importance of symptoms, it seems to be a kind of main driver. Perhaps not, or perhaps it is not even the main one. I wanted to write an article anyway, just in case, and to keep a record.

Thank you for reading!

Here is an article written in support of Palestine. I am fortunate to have taken an interest in this country shortly before it became an unfortunate protagonist for most of the world, which allowed me to take the time to study the dynamics in greater depth.

After many attempts, I will begin this article, which I would like to be innovative in its approach, with specific data.

After 1950, the US greatly developed psychological manipulation techniques, inspired by the Nazis. Here are a few bits of information on this subject:

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/when-protecting-national-security

I personally think the main reason it has become so was probably the adoption of psychopathic psychological warfare tactics in the years after World War II. And what started in the intelligence community has branched out into every facet of modern political and corporate life.

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/the-long-road-of-degeneration

I’ve been reading a book by Joseph P. Farrell lately

First, however, here is the passage that got my attention:

It is important to understand that psychological warfare operations developed during World War Two largely as a response to the totalitarian system of Nazi Germany, and its ideological understanding that psychological warfare was a “World View Warfare” [Weltanschauungskrieg]

…

He quotes Christopher Simpson, who wrote:

William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, then the director of the newly established U.S. intelligence agency Office of Strategic Services (OSS), viewed an understanding of Nazi psychological tactics as a vital source of ideas for ‘Americanized’ versions of many of the same stratagems. Use of the new term [“psychological warfare”] quickly became widespread throughout the U.S. intelligence community.

Today, these methods have evolved; we can observe an intermediate situation, with a strange document called “mindwar” written by a guy named D'Aquino.

After some research, it appears that “mindwar” is a concept, probably popularized by this guy, but which basically consists of the branch of psychological operations by the military. When discussing mindwar among military personnel, it helps to contextualize the discussion, and from what I understand, “mindwar” may be a basic branch of all military training—it therefore refers to basic principles of enemy psychology, etc.

Anyway.

If we look at D'Aquino's “mindwar,” we find details of psychological operations. It's unpleasant to read because it's military morality, and it's very down-to-earth. It's also a treatise on manipulating the psychology of others in order to “gain the upper hand.” In short, it's pretty much like black magic. I'm joking, but overall it's very unusual, and I think there's also a strong psychopathological component to it. So it should be read with the utmost caution.

Here is an excerpt that summarizes what it is all about:

https://archive.org/details/mind-war-by-michael-a.-aquino/MindWar%2C%20by%20Michael%20A.%20Aquino

Michael Aquino - «MindWar»

12. PSYCON #12:

Magic, is the manipulation of the perceptions of the other party so that he first redefines the problem and its issues for himself, then draws conclusions as to the reality and options available based on that redefinition. In short, if the ostensible problem appears to be unsolvable, change it into one which is. In creating such an alternative, the MFB magician unobtrusively introduces a scenario which addresses the actual problem without seeming to, and this is accomplished not by lying to or deceiving those involved, but by presenting them with impressions that lead them to such interpretations and conclusions by themselves.

This should give you some context for what was written; I tried to introduce the idea with the few lines just before.

So, this is about manipulating psychology to achieve a specific outcome. We observe that, in practice, this consists of developing false scenarios.

There is a kind of “stage” that is set up, with “actors.” A context, interactions... Everything is actually artificial, and this allows for the manipulation of ‘reality’ as experienced by a “subject” who knows nothing about any of this.

Practically speaking, it's like making a movie, with fake actions, etc., and showing it to someone who knows nothing about it.

Here is a list of these motions - the “instructions for use”:

p.126-128

a. Either control of the environment or adaptation of the magic to it.

Only the simplest “table tricks” of magic can be done without regard to their surroundings. For most illusions to be effective, the complete environment in which they are activated must be controlled: lighting, absence or presence of external noise, intentional distractions from close attention, audience alertness and receptiveness. While an illusion is intended to appear spontaneous, it frequently requires careful advance preparation out of view of the eventual audience.

b. Establishment of the magician’s dominant relationship.

The magician displays a persona, assertive speech, body language, pressured pace, eye contact - designed to seize and hold the attention of the audience, as well as to gradually but inexorably replace their wills and judgment of reality with his own

c. Dictation of the applicable elements.

The magician identifies to the audience what objects, locations, and/or procedures are important and essential, restricting the problem to their interaction exclusively.

The consequence of this is that an object’s behavior which might seem unremarkable or contrived against ordinary backgrounds or points of reference becomes surprising and inexplicable in this artificial environment.

d. Definition of the variables.

An object or procedure may be used in any number of ways, but the magician defines them so as to limit these ways to only those which make possible and reinforce the illusion.

e. Instruction of behavior.

Audience participation is desirable, since going through motions to supposedly produce the illusion suggests to the audience that it is somewhat responsible for it, thus encouraging belief in it.

f. Limitation of possibilities.

As he controls all of the object(s) and procedure(s) variables, the magician can force the outcome of the illusion into one which the equally-predetermined alternatives appear to highlight as miraculous.

g. Channeling of expectations.

Once in control of both the elements of the illusion and the audience’s perceptions and willpower, the magician instructs the audience in what the possible outcomes of the illusion can be. It is now “impossible” for the objects or procedures to function in any other way, nor for the audience to devise or consider one.

h. Interpretation of the result.

Once the illusion is produced, the magician makes it clear to the audience what it “obviously” signifies. As in his initial establishment of control over the audience, he now implants - though announcement, emotional surprise/ satisfaction, and body language - their presumedly “spontaneous” reaction.

i. Reinforcement of controlled perceptions.

As necessary to establish the performed illusion firmly in “reality”, the magician follows it up with as many supporting devices and created impressions as are necessary. Beyond these basics MW is most specifically concerned with the magical discipline of mentalism.

We can find a “summary” of what this means, as well as more data for those interested in digging deeper:

This involves diversion of target audience perceptions and interpretations towards a different interpretation of their own thought processes than the one which they would naturally experience. This is accomplished both through the above-listed techniques of magic and appropriate activation and blending of the previous eleven SLIMC PSYCONS. Every possible external and psychological factor is controlled and administered to not only reconfigure the subject’s thought-processes, but to leave undisturbed his belief that absolutely no such external influence is occurring.

The “Hamas attack”

I would now like to briefly return to one of the episodes of the attack on Israel by Hamas fighters (October 7, 2023).

What we have been told is that fighters from Hamas, a Palestinian resistance movement, entered Israel and carried out various actions.

Some used motorized flying devices.

Among the notable actions, we note the attack on a rave party. Returning from the main attack, the fighters, flying in their devices, reportedly spotted a group of people and decided to attack them.

Here is a gross timeline:

“Hamas fighters went on paragliders”

"They took selfies”

“One group missed its initial target, went back on paragliders and, while flying, spotted a rave party"

“They decided to drop there and take hostages”

It does not take long for the IDF to arrive, and heavy helicopter fire have most probably been the culprit of 90% of the casualties

That is what we have been told about what happened.

I would like to draw the reader's attention to the fact that, to begin with, there are many things that do not really add up about this Hamas attack.

We are told that the Palestinians got together, probably well before October 7, and decided that the best option for Palestine would be to climb into ultralight aircraft and go and provoke Israel.

We see freedom fighters taking the time to take photos of themselves.

In this unreal equation, we come across an even more disturbing element: a video showing Israelis at a rave party, probably on LSD like all rave parties. This is getting really strange.

And then, “in the sky,” “coming from the sky,” Hamas fighters on parachutes.

Do you see what I mean? I think I needed to explain things this way to show you that there may be something wrong, or something we're missing.

I would now like to return to this document—mindwar—because it seems possible to align it with this data from the attack—at least hypothetically.

an object’s behavior which might seem unremarkable or contrived against ordinary backgrounds or points of reference becomes surprising and inexplicable

As he controls all of the object(s) and procedure(s) variables, the magician can force the outcome of the illusion into one which the equally-predetermined alternatives appear to highlight as miraculous

diversion of target audience perceptions and interpretations towards a different interpretation of their own thought processes than the one which they would naturally experience

I suppose you see where I'm going with this; I would even go so far as to suggest that these Hamas fighters may have coordinated with the IDF, but that's taking the argument too far.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-161968078

… founders of the Israeli rave attacked on Oct 7 claim to be “deeply hurt” by the display. Yet one of the founders has openly bragged of serving as a top Israeli military intelligence asset involved in the Gaza genocide

We could stick to observing the “scenario” that is presented to us – “what happened” – and then look at the “idea of mindwar” to gain a more objective perspective.

Because Israel has been exterminating children and women in front of the cameras since that day. It's been almost two years now, non-stop.

I don't really want to start trying to identify the specific steps in the “mindwar” document that correspond to this event.

The main attack is also subject to this assessment:

Hamas fighters giving birthday cakes to their hostages, during captivity.

From paragliders to selfies, LSD & birthday cakes, all of this has been told to us by Israël.

The account of these events comes exclusively from Israel, and we were stunned to learn that the truth was different from what they had told us. I will not go into details, but horrible accusations and terrible testimonies, which turned out to be forgeries, were put forward by Israelis often close to the military apparatus.

It should be noted, too, that the videos of the Hamas attacks were provided by Israel.

I will also mention that these films feature sequences created by artificial intelligence.

That's a lot.

Potential CIA involvement / influence over Israeli methods

Let us now remind ourselves that D’Aquino was indeed a US military guy involved with the CIA in some very dark “projects”.

We find the standard modus operandi of the CIA - right in Israël, against Palestinians:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/israel-torture-chambers-message-directed-us-palestinians

Sde Teiman, like the Gaza death camp, is serving its purpose. It is there to break the human spirit. It is there to turn the Palestinians into willing collaborators in their own destruction as a people, in their own ethnic cleansing.

Understanding what is happening at Sde Teiman provides a clearer picture of what is happening on a far bigger, even more industrial scale in Gaza.

https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell

Then they put me back in the freezing room with the loud disco music

That morning I was the victim, and the following day the female guards attacked another inmate the same way.

They also used tasers to give us electric shocks all over our bodies.

The scariest part of that time was at night. Forces would burst into the cell at night, explicitly threaten to kill us and beat us severely.

… the detention centre has quickly gained a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”.

(…)

Sde Teiman is the small torture chamber, mirroring the much bigger torture chamber of Gaza itself

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-can-monitor-every-telephone-call-west-bank-and-gaza-intelligence-source

Muhammad Ragheb Salah, a former prisoner who spent 10 years in prison and lives in the village of Burqa, near Nablus, had photographs of himself, his ID and car, taken three times in 30 minutes at different checkpoints.

The above are simple exceprts so as to hint at it taking place. We can find other absurdities:

https://www.sott.net/article/487269-Israel-Stealing-Corpses-From-Gaza-Hospitals-And-Mass-Graves-Harvesting-Organs-Human-Rights-Group

Christ in Heaven. If they dig up 10-day-dead bodies from mass graves, the organs extracted from such cannot possibly be used as transplants for the living. So what do they use them for??

And here is the CIA:

https://www.sott.net/article/495658-US-authorizes-CIA-mercenaries-to-run-biometric-concentration-camps-in-Gaza-Strip

US authorizes CIA mercenaries to run biometric concentration camps in Gaza

Israel is becoming something different with this, isn't it? Palestine too. Imagine this happening in a context of isolation from the rest of the world. Would it be possible to close Palestine off from everything else, even temporarily? It seems complicated, but we are not far from it—and that is precisely the problem, which I will endeavor to explain to you after a brief sequence of documents.

Palestine: an open-air prison, hermetic from the outside world ?

https://thisweekinpalestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Nov-2023-307.pdf

Gaza has been (...) cut off from the world under Israel’s illegal closure and blockade since 2007, as it controls the air space, sea, and perimeter of Gaza

https://joequinn.net/2012/10/21/a-people-that-shall-dwell-alone-israels-attack-on-the-gaza-flotilla/

… Gaza is still entirely controlled by Israel and has been turned into the world’s largest open-air prison for its 1.5 million civilian population. An Israeli security fence completely surrounds Gaza on three sides (with the sea on the fourth) with Israel controlling the two civilian entry and exit gates.

https://www.mei.edu/publications/nowhere-hide-impact-israels-digital-surveillance-regime-palestinians

Surveillance in Palestine bears an uncanny resemblance to the Panopticon, a mechanism of social and psychological control proposed by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. At the center of the Panopticon stands a guard in a watchtower. Surrounding the watchman are prison cells, all within his eyeshot, so the prisoners, not knowing whether they are being watched at any given time, are constantly on their best behavior.

In addition to the MOSSAD, Palestinians suffer from a permanent monitoring by the following protagonists:

Leaked: How MI6 Exploits Palestinian Refugees

Leaked files expose the intensive interest taken in Palestinians by British intelligence operatives, and Foreign Office-funded and directed cutouts, over many years. Collectively, the material leaves little room for doubt that the British government has long sought to covertly surveil, infiltrate, and manipulate Palestinians within and without their homeland for malign ends, while exploiting their suffering (…)

https://declassifiedaus.org/2023/11/03/targeting-palestine/

The Pine Gap US surveillance base located outside of Alice Springs in Australia is collecting an enormous range of communications and electronic intelligence from the brutal Gaza-Israel battlefield – and this data is being provided to the Israel Defence Forces.

https://theintercept.com/2014/08/04/cash-weapons-surveillance/

NSA maintains a far-reaching technical and analytic relationship with the Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU) sharing information on access, intercept, targeting, language, analysis and reporting

(…)

The surveillance-sharing relationship with Israel has expanded to include the NSA’s British and Canadian counterparts, GCHQ and CSEC, both of which actively participate in feeding the Israelis selected communications data they have collected. Several documents from early 2009, at the height of the Israeli attack on Gaza called “Cast Lead” that left more than 1,000 people dead, detail some of this cooperation.

(…)

Jordan also feeds surveillance data about the Palestinians to the NSA. One classified NSA document from 2013 describes how “NSA’s partnership with EWD [the Jordanian Electronic Warfare Directorate] is a well established, long-standing and trusted relationship dating back to the early 1980’s.”

I wouldn’t want to be monitored by MI6 (Britain), NSA (USA), Australia, Canada, Jordan (and all the remaining ones that I haven’t yet been uncovered).

This does not look great and added to the “hermetic prison camp” - it’s “Star Wars with multiple beams”.

Modern DARPA

It is now 2025, and the attack took place in 2023—if it was indeed real (!). Could be an holographic stuff, after all.

Here is some information about DARPA, but mainly from the years 2010–2015.

It seems that the Pentagon, DARPA have taken over, in a way, the study of psychological manipulation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160914014523/https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=66c704debb0114a6d1bc03c45c80acbd (2011)

Identify whether existing influence models can be improved by the addition of a narrative “layer.”

https://ieet.org/archive/articles/dvorsky20111019.html (2011)

The Pentagon believes that by engaging in 'narrative control' they can alter an individual's grasp on reality and the way in which they evaluate current events. Simply put, DARPA is looking to shape minds with stories.

Once these narrative networks reach full maturity they could be used to indoctrinate not just enemy populations, but more familiar ones as well. The very ways in which domestic affairs are perceived could be colored by a security department hoping to create a docile and abiding population.

1. In the first 18-month phase of the program, the Pentagon wants researchers to study how stories infiltrate social networks and alter our brain circuits.

2. Once scientists have perfected the science of how stories affect our neurochemistry, they will develop tools to “detect narrative influence.”

3. When the project enters into a second 18-month phase, it’ll use the research gathered to build “optimized prototype technologies in the form of documents, software, hardware and devices.”

b137347c-6281-466d-b9e7-ef7e0e5d363c.pdf (2014)

DARPA has within its Biological Technologies Office a neuroscience-based project called ‘Narrative Networks’, which aims “to understand how narratives influence human cognition and behavior, and apply those findings in international security contexts.”

DARPA - Narrative Networks (2014)

Why do people accept and act on certain kinds of information while dismissing others? Why are some narrative themes successful at building support for terrorism?

DARPA launched the Narrative Networks program to understand how narratives influence human cognition and behavior, and apply those findings in international security contexts.

• Develop models and simulations of narrative influence in social and environmental contexts, develop sensors to determine their impact on individuals and groups, and suggest doctrinal modifications.

Etc etc

https://web.archive.org/web/20160914014523/https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=66c704debb0114a6d1bc03c45c80acbd

Develop a methodology for incorporating narrative-driven neurobiological considerations (…)

Determine what aspects of narrative neurobiology (such as memory, emotions, judgment, learning, and identity) are most critical

https://web.archive.org/web/20160914014523/https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=66c704debb0114a6d1bc03c45c80acbd

Determine what critical variables are missing from current influence models or must be incorporated into new influence models. Identify how those variables can best be identified, detected and measured. Identify what environmental variables are most critical for the influence process and develop methods for measuring them.

Here we enter the realm where “everything could be false.” No kidding. Could that be possible?

Data

Let us observe some random stuffs:

No"Palestinian sending rockets at Israel"

Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘Telegenically Dead Palestinians’ – A Lesson in Pyschopathy (2014) :

Mr. YUSUF: No. No. This has nothing to do with firing rockets because there is no rockets fired. There are collaborators, sometimes they fire based on the Israeli asking them maybe to fire some of these home-made projectiles. They know that Hamas did their best to protect the border and not to let anybody firing rockets.

SIEGEL: But you’re saying that when rockets have been fired out of Gaza, you’re saying that those are being fired by Israeli collaborators whom the Israelis are arranging for them to do that?

Mr. YUSUF: Actually, we all – let me try me to check if there is anybody actually – we check with those political and militant group who are really showing their commitment. And when we check, well, they – all them denied any of them been firing rockets. So, who been firing these rockets? We don’t have an explanation except from those Israeli collaborators

This was not the first time that a Palestinian politician claimed that alleged attacks on Israelis were in fact the work of Israeli agents. On many occasions, the Palestinian leadership has pointed the finger at Israel as the real ‘rocketeer’. Once in a while, the Israeli military at least admits that rockets were not fired by Hamas. At other times, it admits that it deliberately lied about Palestinian rocket attacks to justify ‘reprisal’ missile strikes. The first recorded claim of Israeli manufacturing of Palestinian terrorism came from the venerable Yasser Arafat in 1995 when he claimed that a suicide bombing attributed to Palestinians was the work of Israelis.

(…)

In a 2001 interview with several leading Italian publications, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat went into some detail regarding the genesis and operation of Hamas. To Corriere della Sera on Dec. 11, he said:

“We are doing everything possible to stop the violence. But Hamas is a creature of Israel which, at the time of Prime Minister [Yitzhak] Shamir [the late 1980s, when Hamas arose], gave them money and more than 700 institutions, among them schools, universities and mosques. Even [former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin ended up admitting it, when I charged him with it, in the presence of [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak.”

In an interview with L’Espresso on Dec. 19, Arafat said:

“Hamas was constituted with the support of Israel. The aim was to create an organization antagonistic to the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization]. They [Hamas] received financing and training from Israel. They have continued to benefit from permits and authorizations, while we have been limited, even [for permits] to build a tomato factory. Rabin himself defined it as a fatal error. Some collaborationists of Israel are involved in these [terrorist] attacks. We have the proof, and we are placing it at the disposal of the Italian government.”

No "Palestinian suicide bomber terrorism"

Joe QUINN – «The myth of the Palestinian suicide bomber»

While the Israeli government has turned the Gaza strip and West Bank regions of Palestine into virtual prison camps, there is one section of the Palestinian community that appears to enjoy unhindered freedom of movement and a blind eye form the Israeli camps guards: "suicide bombers".

Today, one of these rare breed allegedly managed to get all the way down to the southern tip of Israel, to the Red Sea resort town of Eilat.

At 9.45 this morning (Eilat time), we are told that a "Palestinian suicide bomber" detonated his explosives in a small bakery, killing three people and himself.

(…)

As with every other alleged Palestinian "suicide bombing", inconsistencies and contradictions abound.

What is clear is that in order to accept the claim that this was the work of a "suicide bomber", we must dispense with all critical judgement and think in simplistic black and white terms. Palestinians = terrorists. Israelis = peace keepers and defenders. We are being asked to believe, without question, the claims of the Israeli security forces, organisations that are founded on the 'principles' of deception and subterfuge.

What is beyond doubt is that it would be very easy for Israeli intelligence to stage a fake "suicide bombing". A bomb could be concealed in the chosen location, and when the chosen patsy enters or approaches, the bomb is detonated, with Israeli security forces quickly arriving on the scene to declare the cause and tie up any loose ends. What the world public must decide is if a section of the Israeli government possesses the political will to carry out such attacks. Basically, would our political leaders "do that". To answer that question, all that is required is a little reading on the details of Western state counter-insurgency tactics over the past 50 years. Those who do so, even the most sceptical, invariably find it impossible to deny the FACT that Western governments have, on many occasions and in some cases as a matter of ongoing policy, sacrificed the lives of innocent civilians in order to further political goals.

Most people have by now been sufficiently programmed to believe that "Islamic terrorists" wish to destroy Israel (…)

No Palestinian resistance movement performing terrorist actions

This title can be framed within the last two quotes.

Palestinians arrest al-Qaeda ‘poseurs’ (2002) :

“The Palestinian Authority arrested a group of collaborators who confessed they were working for Israel, posing as al-Qaeda operatives in the Palestinian territories ,” said the official, on condition of anonymity.

He said the alleged collaborators sought to “discredit the Palestinian people, justify every Israeli crime and provide [Israel with] reasons to carry out a new [military] aggression in the Gaza Strip.”

And so, what remains of “Palestinians”, without those “beliefs”? No Palestinian rockets, no bus bombers, no terrorism.

This has to deal with the reality; taking out those three variables makes Palestinians quite different than the image we may have of them. Here are two quotes which will emphasize the true aspect of reality - if a person was eager to understand “reality”:

Ylenia GOSTOLI - "Oz: Israel's detention prison for Palestinian children"

In July, the Knesset passed an amendment to the Penal Code that raised the maximum sentence for stone-throwing to 20 years.

<> Palestinians are defending themselves with “stones”. This is the objective danger that Israël faces.

Carolina S. PEDRAZZI - «In the West Bank, Israeli Settlers Are Burning Palestinians’ Olive Trees»

On October 30, farmer Omar Ghoneym drove from al-Khader to his lands in the southern area of Bethlehem. On his way there, he received unfathomable news: most of his property (mainly olive trees) had been uprooted and destroyed by settlers. What he saw when he arrived broke him. Not only had he lost all of his harvest, but even the centuries-old dar ( دار — traditional rural house), which used to overlook the hill, had been torn apart stone by stone by Israeli bulldozers.

Mahmoud Abdullah, another farmer, has acres of grape vines just next to Omar’s trees. He hadn’t been allowed to pick the fruits since October 7. But on the morning of October 30, nothing was left to harvest because his vines had been crushed into the soil. Settlers vandalized everything on the Palestinian hills surrounding their colony, Efrat.

Palestinian farmers know their land by the square-millimeter. To them, there is no such thing as “wild plants”: each sprout on their land is an expression of Palestinian life, as indigenous flora. They harvest the crops, take care of their trees, and walk along their vines with the same love and responsibility with which they protect their loved ones. Their families have been caretakers of these trees for generations; the olive trees have been feeding and protecting their caretakers for just as long.

(…)

Farmers haven’t been allowed to reach these territories at all over the last month, and the IDF has informed them that if they attempt to reach their olive groves, they will be killed.

Abdelhakim ABU RIASH - «Gaza fisherfolk can only ‘dream of fishing freely’ under Israel’s blockade»

The demonstration in the besieged enclave came as a round of escalation in the last 10 days saw the arrest of at least six fisherfolk and the seizure of multiple boats, according to Zakaria Bakr, the head of Gaza’s fishermen union.

Fishers who operate off the coast of Gaza are constantly chased, harassed, intimidated and even killed by Israeli forces, he said.

Seizures of fishing essentials like boats, engines and nets are also a regular occurrence.

That morning, a fisherman was targeted and injured by Israeli forces, Bakr told Al Jazeera. His engine was partially destroyed.

A frustrated Bakr said he believes Israel is using the Palestinian fishers as “lab rats” to try out new weapons.

“It’s madness,” Bakr said. “Pretty much all of the fishermen’s engines are either outdated or damaged.”

Olive trees & Fishermen.

Meanwhile, an alternative scenario is building up:

Netanyahu

Nir (Shoko) COHEN - «Top Secret: In a 2018 letter, Netanyahu asks Qatar to fund Hamas»

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the government of Qatar to continue the transfer of money to Gaza, in a secret letter sent to the Qatari leadership in 2018 and only seen by a handful of people since. In the letter, Netanyahu explained that the funding would reduce the motivation of terror groups there to carry out attacks, would prevent a humanitarian crisis and was vital for preserving regional stability.

Oh-hoo! Netanyahu “preventing a humanitarian crisis” & “preserving regional stability”! Seems that DARPA was on the hit a while ago already…

The statement

Now let us quickly go through what the alleged “Hamas spokesperson” issued as a speech, right after October 7:

Full transcript of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, November 3, 2023

"Then came that glorious jihadi operation of October 7th (...) This glorious, blessed, large-scale operation was 100% Palestinian in terms of decision and execution - 100%.

Even the Palestinians kept it secret from their fellow Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza"

“Even the Palestinians kept it secret from their fellow Palestinian”

Right! Great! Super duper!

And so, in this context of highly fake data, an attack allegedly took place, and it unfolded as Israël told us (!).

One problem

As I was studying all this and gathering data to show how crazy Israel was, I caught a glimpse of something that prompted me to include all these excerpts about DARPA and its ability to modify scenarios directly in people's minds. That's what it's all about, isn't it? At least, that's how it was in 2014.

The very first thing for Palestinians should be to express how the «Hamas attack»:

• was detrimental

• wasn’t that one of a great idea “after all”

There is no evidence of this, no record of these ideas. Until today. Nothing.

Since that «Hamas» attack, what do Palestinians tell us ?

All we have, here and there, is:

• "...and they killed my cousin… Then my …. And my ..."

• I lost 15 members of my family"

• "I know a guy who lost"

You know, given this present article of mine, this becomes striking at some point...It has been 20+ months that I am trying to find one voice - any voice - telling something else than "and they killed all my cousins".

I suspect that some DARPA like thing may have been operating there, and somehow modified the memories of the Palestinians. As crazy as this may sound, I keep it as an hypothesis. We got ample data, as a starting ground, to study. The rave party, the scenario things, etc. No need, indeed, to go that way if it sounds too crazy.

This shall constitute only a small part of this article. But I saw something odd. As if they “don’t remember”.

We got Palestinians matching the DARPA descriptions:

Nora BARROWS-FRIEDMAN - “Writing is an act of courage,” say storytellers from Gaza"

Later on, we realized that there was a very important step we must take, which is to upgrade what we write into fiction in order to take the whole Palestine issue, cause, globally by fiction — because fiction is timeless and universal. And then my friends and I started holding and conducting some workshops and writing courses on creative writing and short story writing, poetry writing, and everybody started writing wonderful pieces — because we live the pain, we live the experience, and writing about Palestine was not difficult. Because at the same time, we realized how important it was.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/we-owe-you-our-words/43501

Writing is a path of truth.

Our pens are our weapons against the world’s attempts to silence us.

Dr. Refaat taught us that there are no extremes when it comes to literature.

They wanted to silence Palestine, yet they raised thousands of voices in response.

Palestinians = gone fiction

Simply put.

While DARPA tells us about “models”, the CIA implements a “pilot project”:

https://www.sott.net/article/495658-US-authorizes-CIA-mercenaries-to-run-biometric-concentration-camps-in-Gaza-Strip

"If the pilot goes through successfully, it will be the model for the rehabilitation of Gaza”

This is the reality of Gaza. Experiments. For a while, now. In an “hermetic prison camp”.

An involvement of DARPA such as one which would tamper with the minds of people, making them not really remember what took place, barely left to count their survivors, would have to deal with the use of tech in a context of mind control.

And we can find some things.

Mind control weapons

Abdel-Monaem MAHMOUD - "Gaza's baffling burnt organs, torn tissues" (2009)

Doctors, Arabs and foreigners, who have been to the Gaza Strip in recent days are scratching their heads trying to figure out the cause of the abnormal injuries suffered by Palestinian civilians.

(…)

The doctor said the abnormal injuries suggest Israel's use of unconventional weapons (…)

"Most of these wounds are caused by Israel's use of banned and experimental weapons. They are killing them with DIME bombs."

RT - «Israel explains remote-controlled checkpoint gun» (2022)

"I see this as part of a transition from human to technological control. We as Palestinians have become an object of experimenting and training for Israel's military hi-tech industry, which is not accountable for anything it does,"

https://web.archive.org/web/20220805175303/https://theintercept.com/document/2014/08/03/nsa-intelligence-relationship-israel/

The Israeli side enjoys the benefits of expanded geographic access to world-class NSA cryptanalytic and SIGINT engineering expertise, adn also gains controlled access to advanced U.S. technology and equipment via accomodation buys and foreign military sales

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/come-out-you-animals-how-the-massacre-at-al-shifa-hospital-happened/

During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital (…) The drones kept saying, ‘come out, you animals’

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/disturbing-recordings-crying-infants-played-israeli-quadcopters-lure-gaza-residents-shooting

On Sunday and Monday night, residents of the northern parts of Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp woke up to the sounds of babies crying and women calling out for help.

When they went outside to locate the source of the cries and provide aid, Israeli quadcopters reportedly opened fire directly at them.

(…)

There were different sounds coming from the quadcopters. They were making noises; some recordings were comprehensible and some were not. They lasted for around 30 to 60 minutes, then the quadcopters started opening fire and firing bombs in the neighbourhood,” he said.

According to the residents, the audio recordings also included songs in both Hebrew and Arabic, including children’s songs, sounds of clashes and moving tanks, voices of Palestinian armed men, and voices of local roaming vendors of cleaning products familiar to residents of Gaza.

Conclusion

I believe I have raised the issue of the overuse of psychological operations in favor of Israel and against the Palestinians. I have raised three hypotheses that may seem implausible at first glance:

• Hamas was actually on Israel's side throughout this whole mess

• Israel's attack did not take place and it was a kind of “film” (on this subject, is there really a single Palestinian who can attest to having SEEN his friends, with their feet in Israel, committing acts on October 7?)

• Something like DARPA is acting as a liaison in all this, in a context of extremely advanced mind control (“global MKULTRA experiment”), and has modified the content in the minds of Palestinians

Beyond such hypotheses, I believe I have provided enough interesting data; my sole hope was to show the reader another side of Gaza, a side that is little known.

Of course, it was also to try to support these hypotheses.

Thank you for reading! I had already written a similar, longer article with more data, but I wanted to summarize as much as possible here to be more concise and focused.

There is a lack of precise (objective) theoretical data, which leads to a misunderstanding of what evil is.

This theoretical deficiency exists in books and in accessible information. Generally speaking, it influences the “intellectual landscape.”

It therefore also affects worldviews, because worldviews are systems for organizing thought.

“What is evil” in a world view are the things that need to be paid attention to.

To sum up: “there exists a form of evil that is yet missunderstood or unrecognized - and this is a source of danger”.

There are many consequences, especially on one's world view. Over time, I have noted a few points - this article brings them together.

A priority

If preventing evil was a matter of importance and that a 6% represents the core problem for 94% of normal people, we may want to reframe our world view, in term of relevant factors - and reframe its “priority chains”.

What matters to me here is that world views do not include precise information about evil. Andrew Lobaczewski is precise, and his data suggest additions and modifications.

These may, of course, conflict with other ideas.

Along the course of my studies of Lobaczewski, I took note of each discrepancy / conflict within “the common world view”. I finally made it, today, and have been able to gather the whole in a readable fashion! This is not perfect but it may constitute a gross starting ground.

So here it is, a dump of ideas:

Is there room for the idea of evil?

Evil (its recognition, its patterns, etc) is under-featured, in world views.

A first “stage” would be the “qualification” of evil: is there any room for evil, in a world view - in the sense of a recognition that, out there, there exists (or “may exist”) evil?

Some people are walking like all is fine and that there is absolutely no danger at all.

A correct world view may want to include some room for the idea that there exists evil, that they may be stumbling, one day, upon one of its manifestations.

Is evil attributed to psychopathology?

The real evil goes by the qualificative of “psychopathology”.

The natural world view tends to “dichotomize” with “good / bad” (and set up a code of moral according to it).

It appears that the “bad” qualificative is insufficiently qualifying “the real evil”. The real evil is “deviancy” in term of ordinary people.

The real evil is under-featured; there is a lack of “skills” training in regard of it.

Criminal vs Psychopath

Presently, most world views identify criminal acts as “wrong”. There, the world view positively operates some 99% - 1% in term of “what is society”. Society is partly composed of 99% of honest - “good” - people and a remainder of 1% criminal - “bad”.

This is not the best dichotomy. This is not objective in term of “danger illustration”.

Is the definition of psychopathology exhaustive?

The common world view already features a place for the word “psychopath”.

The definition of “psychopath” is sometimes incomplete or subjective.

The common world view has room for the word “psychopath” in a sub-context of “madness”.

The definition of “psychopath” is blurry; it may have to deal with the requirement for acucrate classification of “mental ilness”. For the common person, it’s “all in the same bag”.

Mostly, a broad definitional area, indirectly branded “mental insanity” (mostly, “nuts” is ocnsciously used):

• loss of consciousness

• visible signs of madness

• people who have broken with reality

• social misfits

• Down Syndrome

First of all, we could say that the baove range is incomplete.

“Essential psychopathy”, the main culprit for the genesis of evil, is specific; it is hereditary and features specific negative traits in term of social behaviour. It does not feature “visible signs”. Essential psychopaths have not broken with reality. A very specific form of mental illness is not characterized by the common world view.

In addition:

A Down Syndrome is hereditary; this is, strictly speaking, psycho pathology because “the psyche is deviating” (because of something). An ordinary person could, after an accident, or because of too much drug use, see the brain become dysfunctionnal. The person may adopt specific and various psycho pathological traits.

That’s to say that what we are looking at would be “mental illness” and that there exists a word for it - psychopathology. In addition, what is of our concern would be hereditary mental affections which turn the person towards predation, and who literally remain absolutely conscious, calm, in control.

Clinicians have not yet categorized variations. Some ended up qualifying “psychopathies” to indicate that such or such mental illness is hereditary. What constitutes a problem is the objective degree of “evil” (less objective: “social danger”) - and not the degree of “broken-ness with reality”. Despite being hereditary, the Down Syndrome is not damaging per se for society - but would still fit the label of “psychopathy”. In addition, a person affected by a Down Syndrome IS a psychopath, in the sense that he is affected by a “psycho pathology” of some sort. The present clinical jargon sets a person affected by a Down Syndrome at the same level of an “essential psychopath”.

A psychopath, in the context of evil, may require a different name.

Somebody suggested the following qualificative as a criterion for the definition of a “psychopath”:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-314647/Are-sitting-office-psycho.html

The key characteristic of all psychopaths is having no conscience

Folk wisdom

Folk wisdom is a precious ally, especially in its ability to “sense” negative and damaging people. The side of the coin is that many wrong teachings are promulgated, too. The insuffisance of the definition of “psychopath” could suffer from it. Example:

For instance, folk wisdom teaches people about the word “psychopath”: this does not hurt as psychopaths are precisely the kind of people generating evil.

But folk wisdom will never bind the word psychopath precisely to an hereditary condition, for example.

In addition to the consideration that psychopathy is a clinical term, psychopathy & its subsequent “psychopaths” are something quite different than what the folk wisdom’s definition suggests.

Lack of studies on “evil”

The clinical study of psychopaths is not very widespread. Common world views, folk wisdom, suffer of an insuffisance because of this.

Ordinary people can become affected by psychopathology

The common world view may restrict the phenomenon of psychopathology to “psychopaths”; it is not the case. An ordinary person, after an accident, may developp troubles at the level of the psyche, and experience deviant traits.

This shows how psychopathology is not “something” which has to deal with “the world of Hannibal Lecter”.

We need to resample the whole concept around a generic meaning, for the words psychopath/psychopathology.

A difference of “conditions”

Normal people are not born with psychopathology, so when they “get some”, it’s not their original state - while it’s the case for psychopathies.

We are not used to get as far to this consideration. We may look at this in term of “condition”. An ordinary person has the condition of “normal people”. After an accident of some sort, the condition becomes “psycho pathology”.

An essential psychopath’s initial “condition” is psychopathology.

A difference of nature

As seen before, an “evil” psychopath could be characterized in term of the “lack of conscience”.

This, firstly first, sets a proper (and never seen before) dichotomy, for our gaze at society. When staring at society, instead of watching out for “people acting bad”, we may want to prefer watching out to people “lacking conscience” - especially because this IS the objective panorama that we have under our eyes.

One big problem is that those psychopaths lacking consciousness ARE in free wheels - in oru society - because their hereditary condition makes so that they have NOT broken with reality.

And so, the best we could do in order to understand a bit this “matter” is to tell us that there exists “a difference of nature”:

In order for such influence to be active, the pathological characteristic in question must be interpreted in a moralistic manner, i.e. differently from its true nature

The above quote, from Andrew LOBACZEWSKI, illustrates that when an evil psychopaths commits a damage of some sort, the common world view won’t know about the real underlying cause - that there is a deficit in conscience. The common world view sees all & everything under the same light - “human person”, “so let’s moralize”, “it should make its way through the ears and reframe that nut job”. This won’t work. What’s taking place is taking place in a context of a deficit in conscience. Thsi is way too far from requiring the same model than for an ordinary person.

And so. Several points about that:

1. Many world views are based on the idea that all people start with the same “initial grounds”; such intellectual grounds trigger a subsequent scenario for people “turning wrong”. It’s not how things “are” and the whole is actually different, “something else”.

2. People see society as 100% featuring the same type of people - there is no distinction. It’s not a 100% out there - the common world view believes it stares at some 100% “all is worth”.

3. A world view with one toolbox, without much knowledge of all the above, will perform an automatic attribution to “normal people” (to everybody).

This leads us to consider the following “basics”: in order for a world view to be effective (objective), an attribution to psychopathology must occur when it’s the case:

1. An attribution to psychopathology does not occur

2. There is an attribution to “a normal person”

3. An interpretation occurs, attributed to “improper human behavior” - when it’s in fact due to a “psychological deficiency“. The “target” is not accurate.

https://www.sott.net/article/148141-The-Trick-of-the-Psychopaths-Trade-Make-Us-Believe-that-Evil-Comes-from-Others

Normal people need to retain the awareness that not all people are fundamentally good

(...)

The idea that "all men are created equal" and we are all fundamentally good is drummed into us from the time we are born.

(...)

Moreover, throughout history we have been divided into groups on the basis of physical, cultural, religious, or whatever other easily recognizable distinctions

Danger detection, ennemy detection, etc

The consensual world view wouldn’t be capable of pointing the finger to the objective danger, in society, and believes it has more or less effectively narrowed down the “main evil pockets” in the world.

Maddoff's big spec of interest to normal people would be that he was camouflaged, leading to the identification of a yet uncategorized scenario in their world view. Because this time, that's "psychopathology without behavioral" symptoms. It's because ponerologists know that psychopathy uses the mask of sanity - normal people don't bind the camouflage spec as relevant factor and leave it on the side with some homemade explanation about it.

This has to deal with “danger detection” (among other ordinary skills). In the world view, we should find a defective intellectual structure in regard of “ennemy detection“. People would not be expecting danger from the part of a person seemingly behaving rationally. There exists a possibility that it isn’t so.

Thank you for reading!

Hey guys

Something happened last week, about this “Epstein list”:

https://www.sott.net/article/500732-The-Network-in-the-Worlds-of-the-Elites

Bondi's Justice Department released a memo last week: "The two-page document said the department found no evidence of an Epstein client list (…)”

The message is puzzling, because this is what Bondi was up to, February 2025:

There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access. The Department of Justice will ensure any public disclosure of these files will be done in a manner to protect the privacy of victims and in accordance with law, as I have done my entire career as prosecutor.

What is it we are looking at?!

I'd like to set the context; when Trump was re-elected, he entered the White House, to our great hope; at his side was Elon Musk, and both seemed hell-bent on “draining the swamp”.

News timeline:

February 2:

https://www.sott.net/article/497680-Musk-claims-USAID-funded-bioweapon-research

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has accused the US Agency for International Development (USAID) of financing bioweapon research

March 3:

https://www.sott.net/article/498238-Musk-issues-warning-of-personal-peril-over-exposing-DC-corruption

"I mean this is really gonna get me assassinated," Musk replied.

This suggests

• The existence of a mechanism that could potentially put pressure on elected politicians

• Something that the public is unaware of.

It helps to understand Bondi's puzzling attitude.

Now, I'd like to take a closer look at the Epstein files - and especially at what they are. There are two layers, at the moment:

• Epstein was a billionaire pimp of underage girls

• Epstein was part of a secrest service operation designed to blackmail high-ranking politicians

We'll look at the second point, and I'll provide a case that preceded “the Epstein case” (if the secret service hypothesis is true).

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/its-darker-than-you-can-imagine

"Because these networks tightly interlock with national power structures, control of these networks becomes a top priority of the intelligence agencies—and by extension, the intelligence agencies themselves become controlled by these networks. Once the “debts” are acquired by these services, the services then own the domestic or foreign targets or networks, and thus their respective governments. This has the dual effect of both selling out the nation to foreign control and globalizing or internationalizing the network (what conspiracists call the “new world order”)."

While digging up a bit, I stumbled upon the following link:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Stasi

We're in semi-confirmed waters on this page; I don't know if this page reveals the truth. However, it does shed light on a key moment in “the history of blackmail of politicians by the secret services” - something quite specific indeed (!) and not usually talked about by normal people (for lack of data, too).

A little history is required for my post.

After the Second World War, won by Stalin, England and the USA, all's well, there's Nüremberg and the evil Nazis are hanged.

A little later, something happens - “the Cold War”: the official version is that the USSR is becoming imperialist and is trying by all means to spread its communism far and wide in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which began in the aftermath of the Second World War.

After the end of the Second World War in 1945, during which the US and USSR had been allies, the USSR installed satellite governments in its occupied territories in Eastern Europe and North Korea by 1949, resulting in the political division of Europe (and Germany) by an "Iron Curtain".

After the war, Germany was divided up and distributed to the “victors”, in the spirit of “the restoration of German sovereignty”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany

At the Yalta Conference during World War II, the Allies – the United States (US), the United Kingdom (UK), and the Soviet Union (USSR) – agreed to divide defeated Nazi Germany into occupation zones, as well as divide Berlin, the German capital, among the Allied powers. Initially, this meant the formation of three zones of occupation (i.e., American, British, and Soviet).

From what I read, East Germany was first allocated to the Soviets, then a supposedly German entity took over the reins of power. The notion of “power by the Russians, hidden but effective”, remains to be proven. However, this is the official version of history: “the Russians, strongly communist, influencing the Eastern part without regard, creating tensions with the Western world, etc., the Cold War, etc.”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany

Before its establishment, the country's territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the Berlin Declaration abolishing German sovereignty

The Potsdam Agreement established the Soviet-occupied zone, bounded on the east

The GDR was dominated by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), a communist party

The SED-ruled GDR was often described as a Soviet satellite state

East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state".

So much for the historical part; from this Eastern bloc emerged the Stasi, the Eastern bloc secret service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

The Ministry for State Security (German: (…) abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (…), was the state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990.

He appears to be an ancient precursor of the Epstein operation:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Stasi

"its activities (surveillance, blackmail, covertly combating dissidents) are standard intelligence service methods"

"the MfS used child pornography to blackmail influential figures in Western Europe. Among the blackmailed are politicians, judges and industrialists, some of whom still have influence in Western democracies"

The Stasi operated until 1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall (the end of the Cold War) - and that's when something special happened:

1989 - "Operation Rosewood" - "One of the greatest coups of Cold War espionage: the CIA secreting away in 1989 of the complete original files from East Germany's foreign spy operations, including the true identities of its thousands of agents, most in West Germany and other NATO countries."

May the reader not form any fixed ideas about this episode, for it raises many questions:

Some might see the CIA as a malevolent organization; the CIA was originally a secret agency of the USA. In his book, “The secret team”, Fletcher PROUTY explains the strange history of this entity. When it was created, it seems to have had more or less acceptable objectives, but was soon to serve negative ones.

Moreover, it has been demonstrated how much the USA has suffered from the phenomenon of pathocracy since the 60s. This means that the administration has suffered infiltration, through capitalist ideology, little by little, until it has new psychopathic leaders in key positions; the question remains whether they have got their hands on the CIA.

So we might ask ourselves:

In whose hands was the CIA really, in 1989, when it was able to get its hands on the data of almost fifty years of pedocriminal blackmail done to Western politicians?

That's a lot of information, and in this case, such an opportunity for psychopaths would be priceless.

The alternative hypothesis, that it was the Reagan administration that got its hands on the confidential Stasi files, would not prevent what followed:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Stasi

"after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former Stasi network transformed the intelligence services into a financial racket"

Full quote:

In 2003, Vanya Götz, a former liaison officer between the former Soviet secret service KGB and the MfS, stated in an affidavit that the MfS used child pornography to blackmail influential figures in Western Europe. "Among the blackmailed are politicians, judges and industrialists, some of whom still have influence in Western democracies. According to her, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former Stasi network transformed the intelligence services into a financial racket.

The Belgian child trafficker Marc Dutroux, who was arrested in August 1996 for murdering several girls, also worked on behalf of the Stasi for a time. "There were indeed indications that such information could be found in the Stasi material that was leaked to the CIA. The Belgian secret service would be well advised to thoroughly evaluate these documents," said the former intelligence coordinator of the Kohl government, Bernd Schmidbauer (CDU). Due to the explosive nature of the information contained therein, including about Western European politicians, these documents are still withheld from the public. Only intelligence agencies were allowed to inspect the reports filtered by the CIA.

This might explain why the investigating authorities have not yet been able to clarify both the Dutroux case and the disappearance of the Berlin boy Manuel Schadwald. The boy, who has been missing since 1993, was abducted into the Dutch child porn milieu, according to witnesses. Manuel's father Rainer Wolf, a Stasi employee under cover in the East German peace movement, had already been suspected having taken his son into the child porn milieu himself. Vanja Götz, whose alias "Grigori" can also be found in the Stasi files on Rainer Wolf, explains in her affidavit: "I had the order from the East German secret service to assess this man psychologically. It was only much later that I learned that after Wolf's relocation to West Germany, staged by the Stasi in 1984, he was blackmailing Western Europeans with child pornography on behalf of the foreign espionage of the East German secret service." The children were taken by the service from East German children's homes.

I cannot attest to the veracity of this site, Wikispooks, and this information; it implies a transfer of blackmail documents to another entity - and who would have continued to exploit them instead of destroying them or disinfecting them.

The Epstein affair may well be a continuation of this. We could assume that the incriminating information was exported to Israel - a state created by England, to ensure its continued use. There is no doubt that, in Trump's hands, a blackmail network would have come to an end during his last term in office (2017-2021).

This concluding sentence raises several hypotheses:

• who is the real master of Israel?

• Is Israel the country manipulating Operation Epstein?

The 1989 episode remains the enigma as far as I'm concerned; it goes without saying that the CIA's attitude would remain correct in the first place, as it seized the Stasi documents. The problem arises when it starts to exploit them again.

This is a parameter of “evil” and does not correspond to a structure inhabited by a “healthy” spirit.

To explain this, I approached the pathocracy angle - making it sound like the CIA was infiltrated after the 60s.

Other historians will argue that the CIA was a bad organization from the start; I, for one, would follow Fletcher Prouty, who argues that the CIA's beginnings were “healthy”. While we observe the MKULTRA project as early as 1954, we could date the CIA's corruption into an evil organization a little earlier, then. This raises the issue of a pathocracy - again - an infiltration of the power structure by psychopaths.

So that would be determining evil from its appearance in the CIA - and that seems to go back to before 1950. I recommend L. Fletcher Prouty's book, which you can find on web archive. It provides a whole host of fascinating details, such as the fact that the Cold War was World War III - and that the CIA was transformed into a supranational organization. That's why he calls his book "the secret team", to show how a malicious, hidden organization manipulated the course of history without anyone knowing.

L. Fletcher Prouty - "The secret team"

This is the fundamental game of the Secret Team. They have this
power because they control secrecy and secret intelligence and because
they have the ability to take advantage of the most modern
communications system in the world, of global transportation systems, of
quantities of weapons of all kinds, and when needed, the full support of a
world-wide U.S. military supporting base structure. They can use the
finest intelligence system in the world, and most importantly, they have
been able to operate under the canopy of an assumed, ever-present enemy
called "Communism."

That’s why I remain cautious with the explanations going by “watch out, Communists!”. This looks like a bit staged and the fact that the Cold War started out of the fear of Communism is puzzling. The “fall of the wall”, along with the gathering by the CIA of Communist Intel assets… Well… What’s very troubling is that after having won the war together, suddenly, the UK, the USA find that Soviets are bad guys (because of their irrepressible Communism”).

In his old article, Harrison KOEHLI says:

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/the-long-road-of-degeneration

If I had to pick a prime candidate on which to place the blame, I wouldn’t choose “the universities” or “the politicians” or even “the managerial class.” The causal links of ponerogenesis are many and complex, and to some degree everyone shares a portion of the blame. But my money is on the intelligence agencies for pushing us over the edge. Not the analysts, or even the covert operatives and counterintelligence personnel. Some no doubt played a role, but I’m talking about the strategists. The guys like Donovan, Dulles, Angleton, and more whose names we’ll probably never know, who grabbed the tiger by the tail and convinced themselves they were gods in the process. By doing so, they set a process in motion that will be difficult to stop.

We note that he places the blame on the intelligence services. Readers may have noticed how involved the latter seem to be in the quagmire we find ourselves in - the Epstein files seem to be like a culmination of decades of such things.

Harrison KOEHLI goes into more detail about how these intelligence agencies got us into this mess:

I’ve been reading a book by Joseph P. Farrell lately: Saucers, Swastikas and Psyops: A History of A Breakaway Civilization: Hidden Aerospace Technologies and Psychological Operations. It is a fun read, even if I don’t always agree with him. So far, he is arguing that regardless of the nature of UFOs (extraterrestrial vs. human black projects), the technology aspect is intrinsically intertwined with a technique: advanced psychological operations.

And so, he point sout how “human black projects” match “UFO phenomenons” in the “psychological operations” aspect.

In his article, Harrison KOEHLI adds:

It is important to understand that psychological warfare operations developed during World War Two largely as a response to the totalitarian system of Nazi Germany, and its ideological understanding that psychological warfare was a “World View Warfare”

And then:

William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, then the director of the newly established U.S. intelligence agency Office of Strategic Services (OSS), viewed an understanding of Nazi psychological tactics as a vital source of ideas for ‘Americanized’ versions of many of the same stratagems. Use of the new term [“psychological warfare”] quickly became widespread throughout the U.S. intelligence community. For Donovan psychological warfare was destined to become a full arm of the U.S. military, equal in status to the army, navy, and air force.

Of course, this raises the philosophical question of just how much of this essentially Nazi conception can be “borrowed” and “Americanized” before the Nazi ideology itself comes to dominate the process, transforming the society adopting it.

Harrison KOEHLI explains how the Americans decided to develop psychological operations techniques, inspired by the Nazis.

He prefers to observe a borrowing of “pathocratic concepts” rather than simple psychological techniques - and tweaks the quote:

This raises the ponerological question of just how much of this essentially pathocratic conception can be “borrowed” and “Americanized” before the pathocratic ideology itself comes to dominate the process, transforming the society adopting it into a pathocracy.

This story of pathocracy is quite a program. No matter where she sets foot, we'll always get the same result.

That's why, rather than looking at things from the angle of “the arrival and development of psychological techniques”, Harrison KOEHLI will go straight to the phenomenon that really lurks above - “the arrival and development of psychological techniques” or “the basic development of totalitarianism within a group”.

What Harrison KOEHLI observes can be seen when we follow the path of the ponerologist (the study of “evil”):

When you adopt the means of a psychopathic enemy, you put yourself within the “gravity well” of a ponerogenic telon or attractor.

If you adopt the psychological techniques of a pathocracy, you’ll probably end up adopting the psychology (and psychological demographics) of a pathocracy. The risk isn’t becoming literal Nazis; it is becoming progressively more pathocratic.

Evil attracts evil - and those US intel services people put us all in deep doo-doo because of giving into those “black projects”.

From there on, we could see the whole Epstein saga as a big continuity, involving various actors and several variables. We now get the general idea of what took place.

Intelligence Services attracted evil to the planet because of their hubris.

Today, the following article caught my attention:

https://www.sott.net/article/500748-Tulsi-Gabbard-releases-overwhelming-evidence-of-Obama-coup-plot-against-Trump

Gabbard unveiled more than 100 pages of emails, memos, and internal communications, which she described as "overwhelming evidence" of a coordinated effort by senior Obama-era officials to politicize intelligence and launch the multi-year Trump-Russia collusion investigation. She dubbed it "a treasonous conspiracy to subvert the will of the American people."

"This intelligence was weaponized (…)”

Sounds very similar to what Harrison KOEHLI says in his article.

As expressed above with the pathocracy of Capitalism, the problem does not date from Obama but predates. Obama therefore refers to a period of higher-than-normal intensity as far as these things are concerned.

So we're looking at the traces of something that began at the end of the Second World War and has continued to undermine the system right up to the present day. Harrison KOEHLI talks about the feeling for psychological operations - which might make a good thread if we were to spot something spanning all those decades.

I wrote an article specifically dedicated to the Capitalist movement being slowly infiltrated by a pathocracy here. Quote:

Harrison KOEHLI - "Pathocracy Rising: How Economic Systems Breed Deviants"

The current system developed as financial capitalism

On the one hand there is financial capitalism and usury. On the other: traditional Western conservatism based on productive labor.

In this sense financial capitalism is very similar to communism. As the system gains supremacy, those running the system will become progressively more saturated with those for whom the system works on a fundamental level, value-wise.

Communism and financial capitalism attract psychopaths of all descriptions.

The recent revelations about USAID demonstrate this perfectly. The CIA, after adopting political/psychological warfare strategies, weaponized this playbook worldwide to spread “democracy” and “liberalism.”

Thank you for reading! I don't know if my analysis grid represents anything objective, and the above is what I could provide if I set myself to the task.

(translated with DeepL)

https://fr.sott.net/article/44378-Gouvernance-perverse-globalisme-et-protection-des-populations-I-Marion-Saint-Michel

A good yardstick

a twisted society, turned completely upside down

the principle of perversion is to go in one direction - to display a precise goal, when the real goal is in fact the opposite.

There's the principle of inversion

There's also the principle of duplicity

An example: some psychopaths have zero affect, but indulge in theatrical affect. This is duplicity.

Perversion has two main objectives:

• dehumanization

• self-destruction

Dehumanization, which is a loss of reference to inner unity, occurs through a kind of de-subjectivization: people become objects; there is an abandonment of consideration as a subject, with a history (and so on).

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Adding the following consideration:

https://www.starfirecodes.com/p/the-updated-list

If you look at the diary/journal/note passing/text messages of most girls ages 11-14, it’s going to look a lot like that passage.

Lots of weird unwarranted self-loathing mixed with gushing and pining over current “object of affection,” if by “object” you mean “objectification” and by “affection” you mean something a bit more akin to “fixation” or “obsession.”

Any woman being honest will tell you that puberty makes the majority of girls ragingly emotionally bipolar.

Most of us grow out of it toward the end of high school.

Others transfer this energy to literal objects and obsess over things like pumpkin spiced lattes after that.

The rest continue to carry that energy toward “relationships” into adulthood and end up in prison after lashing out at one perceived slight too many.

I am studying those things right now:

• the lack of a critical bit of knowledge

  • organization fails because it submits to organizational principles which are inadequate in regard of reality

    • distorsion, inversion, perversion

So - if you see perversion, a perverted system, chances are it comes from this.

I have been studying this phenomenon of perversion, and there exists a model explaining how it comes to fruition in the field of work: here (or here).

There seems to exist a loop of some sort. It seems partly intentional and partly put in motion by ordinary people who don’t know about a specific knowledge.

This creates a mechanism.

There are various consequences and it’s what I have been trying to gather in my "puzzle section" - in order to fashion some broad pictures (called completed puzzles).

No major religion indicates the nature of the macrosocial pathological phenomenon; therefore we cannot consider religious dictates as a specific basis for overcoming this great historical disease. Religion is neither a specific serum nor an aetiotropically active antibiotic with regard to the phenomenon of pathocracy.

Although it constitutes a regenerative factor for the spiritual strength of individuals and societies, religious truth does not contain the specific naturalistic knowledge which is essential for understanding the pathology of the phenomenon, and which is simultaneously a curative and a resistance generating factor for human personalities.

Rather, religious faith and the phenomenon of pathocracy are in fact at different levels of reality, the latter being more earthy. That also explains why there can be no true collision between religion and the ponerological knowledge about the macrosocial pathological phenomenon. If we based our societal defense and treatment with regard to destructive influences of pathocracy only upon the truest religious values, this would be reminiscent of curing an insufficiently comprehended disease exclusively by measures which strengthen body and soul. Such general therapy may furnish satisfactory results in many cases, but it will prove insufficient in others. This macrosocial disease belongs to the latter category. The fact that this pathocratic phenomenon, which has spread to the most wide-ranging scale in human history, demonstrates hostility to any and all religion does not imply the conclusion that it is the opposite of religion. This dependence would be structured differently under other historical and contemporary conditions. In the light of historical data, it appears obvious that religious systems have also succumbed to ponerogenic processes and manifested the symptoms of a similar disease.

The specific basis for healing our sick world, which is also a curative factor for restoring full reasoning capabilities to the human personality, must therefore be the kind of science which renders the essence of the phenomenon evident and describes it in sufficiently objective language.

(…)

First of all, Christianity adapted the Greek heritage of philosophical thought and language to its purposes. This made it possible to develop its own philosophy, but the primeval and materialistic traits of that language imposed certain limits which hampered communication between Christianity and other religious cultures for many centuries. Christ’s message expanded along the seacoast and beaten paths of the Roman empire’s transportation lines, within the imperial civilization, but only through bloody persecutions and ultimate compromises with Rome’s power and law. Rome finally dealt with the threat by appropriating Christianity to its own purposes and, as a result, the Christian Church appropriated Roman organizational forms and adapted to existing social institutions. As a result of this unavoidable process of adaptation, Christianity inherited Roman habits of legal thinking, including its indifference to human nature and its variety. Two heterogeneous systems were thus linked together so permanently that later centuries forgot just how strange they actually were to each other. However, time and compromise did not eliminate the internal inconsistencies, and Roman influence divested Christianity of some of its profound primeval psychological knowledge. Christian tribes developing under different cultural conditions created forms so variegated that maintaining unity turned out to be an historical impossibility.

A “Western civilization” thus arose hampered by a serious deficiency in an area which both can and does play a creative role, and which is supposed to protect societies from various kinds of evil. This civilization developed formulations in the area of law, whether national, civil, or finally canon, which were conceived for invented and simplified beings. These formulations gave short shrift to the total contents of the human personality and the great psychological differences between individual members of the species Homo sapiens. For many centuries any understanding of certain psychological anomalies found among some individuals was out of the question, even though these anomalies repeatedly caused disasters.

This civilization was insufficiently resistant to evil, which originates beyond the easily accessible areas of human consciousness and takes advantage of the enormous gap between formal or legal thought and psychological reality. In a civilization deficient in psychological cognition, hyperactive individuals driven by their internal doubts caused by a feelings of being different easily find a ready echo in other people’s insufficiently developed consciousness. Such individuals dream of imposing their power and their different experiential manner upon their environment and their society.Unfortunately, in a psychologically ignorant society, their dreams have a good chance of becoming reality for them and a nightmare for others.

(...)

The ponerological approach throws new light upon age-old questions heretofore regulated by the dictates of moral systems and must of necessity bring about a revision in thought methods. As a Christian, the author was initially apprehensive that this would cause dangerous collisions with ancient tradition. Studying the question in the light of the Scriptures caused these apprehensions gradually to fade away. Rather, this now appears to be the way to bring our thought processes closer to that original and primeval method of perceiving moral knowledge. Quite characteristically, reading the Gospels can provide teachings clearly convergent with the method of understanding evil derived from naturalistic investigations on its origin. At the same time, we must foresee that the process of correction and conformation will be laborious and time consuming, which ultimately will probably prevent any major tumult.

Religion is an eternal phenomenon. A sometimes overly active imagination would at first complement whatever esoteric perception could not handle. Once civilization and its concurrent discipline of thought reaches a certain level of development, a monotheistic idea tends to emerge, generally as a conviction of a certain mental elite. Such development in religious thought can be considered a historical law rather than individual discovery by such people like Zarathustra or Socrates. The march of religious thought through history constitutes an indispensable factor of the formation of human consciousness. Acceptance of religion’s basic truths opens to man a whole field of possible cognition wherein his mind can search for the truth. At that point, we also free ourselves of certain psychological impediments and gain a certain freedom of cognition in areas accessible to naturalistic perception. Rediscovering the true, ancient, religious values strengthens us, showing us the meaning of life and history. It also facilitates our introspective acceptance of phenomena within ourselves for which naturalistic perception proves insufficient. Parallel to our self knowledge, we also develop our ability to understand other people, thanks to the acceptance of the existence of an analogous reality within our neighbor.

Ever since ancient times, philosophers and religious thinkers representing various attitudes in different cultures have been searching for the truth regarding moral values, attempting to find criteria for what is right, and what constitutes good advice. They have described the virtues of human character at length and suggested these be acquired. They have created a heritage containing centuries of experience and reflection. In spite of the obvious differences of originating cultures and attitudes, even though they worked in widely divergent times and places, the similarity, or complementary nature, of the conclusions reached by famous ancient philosophers are striking. It demonstrates that whatever is valuable is conditioned and caused by the laws of nature acting upon the personalities of both individual human beings and collective societies. It is equally thought-provoking to see how relatively little has been said about the opposite side of the coin; the nature, causes, and genesis of evil. These matters are usually cloaked behind the above generalized conclusions with a certain amount of secrecy. Such a state of affairs can be partially ascribed to the social conditions and historical circumstances under which these thinkers worked; their modus operandi may have been dictated at least in part by personal fate, inherited traditions, or even prudishness. After all, justice and virtue are the opposites of force and perversity; the same applies to truthfulness vs. mendacity, similarly like health is the opposite of an illness. It is also possible that whatever they thought or said about the true nature of evil was later expunged and hidden by those very forces they sought to expose.

The character and genesis of evil thus remained hidden in discreet shadows, leaving it to literature to deal with the subject in highly expressive language. But, expressive though the literary language might be, it has never reached the primeval source of the phenomena. A certain cognitive space remained as an uninvestigated thicket of moral questions which resist understanding and philosophical generalizations.

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Political ponerology”

Basic mapping (problem > consequence):

• “It is … thought-provoking to see how relatively little has been said about … the nature, causes, and genesis of evil.”

  • “The character and genesis of evil thus remained hidden”

General reasons:

whatever is valuable is conditioned and caused by the laws of nature acting upon the personalities of both individual human beings and collective societies

The natural world view takes its toll: for various reasons, the natural way of looking at things primes, and prevents interest and studies.

the social conditions and historical circumstances under which these thinkers worked; their modus operandi may have been dictated at least in part by personal fate, inherited traditions, or even prudishness

Circumstances, conditions: same - prevents ineterst and studies.

Two elements of interest:

These matters are usually cloaked behind the above generalized conclusions with a certain amount of secrecy

whatever they thought or said about the true nature of evil was later expunged and hidden by … forces

In addition, “active forces” - a conscious will.

This boils down to two different scenarios, probably varying in intensity through history:

• No commitment to knowledge about evil

• Commitment to knowledge about evil, but “expunged”

Difficult to produce a mapping with all the above “branches”! It would look like a multiple arrowed-map.

Another interesting point goes as follows:

the literary language […], has never reached the primeval source of the phenomena

The above intended to expand on the reasons, in order to fill in the following gap:

• “It is … thought-provoking to see how relatively little has been said about … the nature, causes, and genesis of evil.”

  • [?]

    • “The character and genesis of evil thus remained hidden”

Because the overall problem is the lack of available knowledge about evil.

This lack of knowledge triggers a lot of problems:

• A certain cognitive space remained

  • as an uninvestigated thicket of moral questions

  • which resist understanding and philosophical generalizations

And the above bolded part cateches my attention; “cognitive dissonance”.

The fact that some critical knwoledge remains as an uninvestigated thicket, has consequences upon intellectual systems - and this shall manifest in terms of some counterpart / compensating way.

That’s of my interest (and others may consider different elements, for sure).

It would be, all the time, the same generical stuff that sneaks inside and twist it from the inside.

This would reconcile ALL & everybody, isn’t it?

It would direct the gaze of anti-Jews, anti-Blacks, anti-Communists, anti-Catholics, etc, towards the real problem - which is all the time the same.

The problem becomes “the degree of conduit-ness for the nefarious stuff” … and not “Christianity”, “Jews”, “non-Jews”, Capitalism, “anti-Capitalism” etc etc any more.

“Christianity” can become a conduit for a negative agenda; initially it’s a positive stuff but it can become damaging.

“Capitalism” can become a conduit for a negative agenda; initially it’s a positive stuff but it can become damaging. Initially, it’s about sparing bucks. Suffice that “the stuff” hijacks it and exacerbates its worst aspects… There you are, Capitalism become sobjectively “bad”.

And so what we would need to agree on would be that it’s an external stuff, mostly “all the time the same stuff” - instead of “the flaws of the association”, which is the culprit. People nowadays remain staring at the ideological content - rather than suspecting that something else is inside. People nowadays bind the troubles entirely to the ideology itself.

But some spotted that the end result of an association-turned-wrong is all the time the same.

« En vérité le succès des machines de Blair révélèrent un sophisme dans l’argument commercial ordinaire. Nous parlons d’une compétition entre deux sortes de savon ou deux sortes de jambon ou de cacao, mais c’est une compétition pour l’achat, non en pratique »

Fervent admirateur d’Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI, son travail a inspiré ce blog. La phrase ci-dessus me fait penser à quelque chose qu’il décrit; observons sa citation que je commenterai pour le lecteur:

L’idéologie d’une association ponérogénique secondaire est formée par adaptation graduelle de l’idéologie primaire à des fonctions et objectifs qui diffèrent de ceux qui étaient présents au moment de la formation. Une certaine sorte de « feuilletage » ou de schizophrénie de l’idéologie a lieu au cours du processus de ponérisation. La couche extérieure qui est la plus proche du contenu originel est utilisée pour la propagande du groupe, spécialement par rapport au monde extérieur, bien qu’elle puisse aussi être utilisée en partie à l’intérieur, à l’intention des membres pas assez convaincus des échelons inférieurs. La deuxième couche ne présente aucun problème de compréhension pour l’élite : elle est plus hermétique, généralement composée en glissant des significations différentes dans les même mots. Puisque des mots identiques ont des sens différents selon la couche dans laquelle on les place, la compréhension de ce « double langage » nécessite la maîtrise des deux « langues ».

L’homme moyen succombe aux insinuations suggestives de la première couche longtemps avant de commencer à comprendre la deuxième aussi. Toute personne présentant certaines déviances psychologiques, en particulier si elle porte un masque de normalité, perçoit immédiatement la deuxième couche comme attrayante et significative. C’est normal, puisqu’elle a été élaborée par des gens qui lui ressemblent. Comprendre ce double langage constitue donc un travail ardu qui provoque une résistance psychologique bien compréhensible. Mais cette dualité de langage est en fait un symptôme pathognomonique indiquant que l’association humaine en question est atteinte du processus ponérogénique, et ce à un stade avancé.

Tout cela semble bien technique mais n’est pas trop compliqué en réalité. Je reviens sur les explications au sujet de cette citation plus tard, mais ce que Lobaczewski explique est qu’une idée motrice (“idéologie”), quelle qu’elle soit, peut devenir sujette à une influence extérieure (“déviance psychologique“) puis voir son contenu interne modifié (“ponérisation“). L’intérêt ici est la caractéristique de “la seconde couche”: nous disposons donc, grâce à Lobaczewski, de données précises qui attestent d’une modification de contenu, d’un “tout”, vers une fonction différente de son but d’origine - et malhonnête.

Pour comprendre la relation entre ces deux citations (Chesterton & Lobaczewski), il faut un modèle théorique; le voici:

Si nous prenions un instantané de la société, nous pourrions observer un “94% / 6%”:

94% de gens normaux, sains mentalement - et - 6% de psychopathes, en roues libres. Notons que ces psychopathes-là sont affectés par une caractéristique héréditaire, qu’ils ne sont pas détectables par des symptômes visibles et que seule un examen clinique pourrait témoigner de leur déviance.

Le 94% est fortement influencé par ces gens - et leur influence est principalement de la déviance. D’ailleurs, leur “condition” de 6% EST principalement fondée sur de la déviance, au regard des gens ordinaires. Nous pourrions dire que leur esprit est différent. Leurs objectifs, leurs raisons d’être, etc, aussi.

Nous pourrions déterminer que réside là “l’origine du mal”, dans la société.

J’ai essayé de schématiser cela comme suit:

La condition humaine

• 94% de gens normaux, 6% de "reste"

• conditionné au niveau de l'ADN

  • la norme est 94% (et pas le 6%)

    • le 6% est une déviation de la norme

      • le 6% présente des qualités psychologiques différentes du 94%

        • le 6% est une déviation au niveau psychologique

          • sa qualité se distingue de la condition psychologique des gens normaux en un rapport négatif

            • le 6% représente une déviance psychologique négative

              • psychopathologique <> psycho pathologie

              • “l’origine du mal dans la société”

Revenons maintenant à la citation de Chesterton; que nous dit-il? Il nous explique qu’une stratégie commerciale dévie et est comme “récupérée” et “déviée”, en un endroit précis, vers des fins différentes (et malhonnêtes).

Observons la citation de Lobaczewski: il explique qu’alors que les psychopathes s’emparent d’une association humaine, un processus interne de dégénération, spécifique, se produit. Il a appelé le processus de dégénération “ponérisation” et toute la dynamique, “pathocratie”. Ici, Lobaczewski parle d’idéologie; ce qu’il exprime par là n’est rien d’autre que “le motto”, “la force motrice”, “l’idée principale” du groupe, d’un groupe lambda. Nous pouvons aisément rapprocher ses dires en considérant, par exemple, le capitalisme, et observer que “l’idéologie initiale”, se voulant “commerciale”, devient sujette à une affection… Et c’est ce que Chesterton exprime. “Là où nous devrions trouver X, nous trouvons Y, et c’est passablement malhonnête / négatif”.

Lobaczewski parlerait de ponérisation idéologique - et il est vrai qu’à l’endroit où nous devrions trouver un mécanisme en rapport avec l’idée du mouvement de base (ici, le commerce) - nous trouvons autre chose, ET, quelque chose de dommageable pour les gens ordinaires.

Je voudrais vous donner un autre exemple pour expliquer de quoi il retourne, mais l’idée principale serait “l’adoption spontanée d’attitudes auxquelles l’homme ordinaire ne penserait jamais en premier lieu”.

Quelque chose “d’alien”, comme on dit, quelque chose “d’externe” à sa constitution. C’est pour cela que j’ai réalisé le schéma sur le 6% / 94%, afin d’exprimer la source de toutes les aberrations que les gens normaux adoptent parfois.

Nous retrouvons les “aberrations” à tous les niveaux: dans les idées, les pensées, les méthodes de gestion, les principes directeurs de quoi que ce soit, etc etc et si nous observons bien, elles correspondent à de la déviance - et plus précisément de la déviance au niveau conceptuel / mental. Le terme exact pour cela est “psycho pathologie”, soit une pathologie quelqconque au niveau du fonctionnement mental… C’est donc pour cela que j’ai retenu le terme de “psychopathologie” pour qualifier “ce qu’est le mal”, pour les gens ordinaires. L’origine du mal semble donc être l’ADN héréditaire des psychopathes et qui produit en eux une génération de psychopathologie - qui sera à son tour “vantée comme normale et appréciable” envers les gens normaux.

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/psychopathy-and-antisocial-personality-disorder-case-diagnostic-confusion

Dans mon livre Without Conscience, je soutiens que nous vivons dans une « société de camouflage », une société dans laquelle certains traits psychopathiques - l'égocentrisme, le manque d'intérêt pour les autres, la superficialité, le style au détriment de la substance, le fait d'être « cool », la manipulabilité, etc. sont de plus en plus tolérés et même valorisés.

J’ai ici un billet recensant bon nombre de phrases attestant de cette influence qui reste pour le moment cachée au public (désolé ce billet est en anglais uniquement).

Voici quelques phrases illustrant tout cela:

https://vanguardistjournal.substack.com/p/a-spiderweb-of-interrogations-without

la tendance (…) des individus à la recherche d'un statut d'influenceur

https://substack.com/@manniratliff/note/c-122809349

En effet, en plus d'être une drogue à consommer, l'empathie est aussi une sorte de monnaie. Et comme tout moyen d'échange sain, elle doit se conformer à la loi de la rareté.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-162420702

… priver une audience de la possibilité de faire l'expérience d’évaluer des propos tenus ou de se faire sa propre opinion.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-164229092

Mon conseil : chaque fois que vous observez que quelqu'un s'appuie sur le silence pour dominer socialement, rompez le silence.

Des modèles d’être aberrants sont promus par certains, puis par nous-mêmes, sans que nous nous rendions compte que leur origine pourrait bien être très discutable. Extrêmement discutable!

Nous observons combien cela tourne principalement autour du “gain de la domination” et du “Service de Soi”.

Conclusion

Ma conclusion serait que les psychopathies sont à l’origine de formules psychopathologiques qui sont reprises par les êtres humains normaux. La raison en est principalement le “gain immédiat”, le profit, mais aussi une duperie faisant passer ces modèles comme valides, positifs. Il y a donc une séduction, mais une séduction malhonnête. Une personne adhérant à de tels principes opérera à une polarisation vers le “Service de Soi” - une polarité antagoniste au “Service des Autres”, et qui sont toutes deux au fondement de l’Univers. L’Univers repose sur ces deux polarités, et il a été dit que la Terre était principalement un lieu de “Service de Soi”. Il est donc bon de pouvoir identifier l’état des choses, pour ensuite pouvoir faire quelque chose!

Ainsi donc, nous observons un foyer de Service de Soi en les psychopathes dont l’affection est héréditaire. Nous observons aussi que c’est cela, “le mal” et que c’est de là qu’il provient initialement.

Le rôle des psychopathes peut être analysé en tant que catalyseur pour les gens, afin d’évoluer vers le Service des Autres, ou comme catalyseur de Service de Soi, pour détruire les gens.

Political Ponerology

Depathologizing America

It has been barely two weeks and already we’re living in another world, one that to me at least seemed remote and unimaginable just two months ago. The change has the potential to be as big—or bigger—than the fall of communism over thirty years ago…

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a year ago · 193 likes · 47 comments · Harrison Koehli

(en anglais)

J’ai trouvé, pour le moment, deux articles attestant d’un tel phénomène en ce qui concerne le mandat de Biden:

https://www.rt.com/news/618669-trump-biden-autopen-probe/

https://www.sott.net/article/499821-Politburo-secretly-ran-Biden-White-House-as-aides-were-willing-to-do-undemocratic-things-to-stop-Trump

Toutefois, comme le précise John Carter (en anglais):

John CARTER - “The Blitzkrieg Through the Institutions”

Depuis des années, nous parlons de la longue marche de la gauche à travers les institutions. La métaphore vient de la conquête de la Chine par Mao, mais le processus ressemble davantage à la propagation rampante d'un champignon envahissant

Tout cela nous montre que "les aides de Biden" ne sont en réalité pas le dernier échelon d'un pouvoir qui aurait littéralement pris la Maison Blanche en otage.

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Ponérologie politique”

C’est ainsi que tout grand mouvement social et son idéologie peuvent devenir un « hôte » sur lequel une pathocratie peut mener sa vie de parasite.

Il est indubitable que le phénomène pathocratique est apparu à de nombreuses reprises dans l’Histoire, a parasité de nombreux mouvements

… la connaissance du style caractéristique utilisé par la pathocratie pour caricaturer l’idéologie du mouvement qu’elle parasite.

Andrew LOBACZEWSKI a poussé ses recherches très loin dans ce domaine, et il existe un modèle étape-par-étape, récurrent, que l’on trouvera dans toutes les périodes totalitaires. Il s’avère réellement que ces dernières ont suivi une trajectoire bien définie. J’encourage le lecteur intéressé à s’intéresser à ce modèle, qui s’applique à toute association humaine, comme par exemple à une civilisation. Pour le comprendre en détail, il vous faudra investir un minimum de temps à l’étude des pathologies suivantes:

1. schizoïdes

2. charactéropathes

3. paranoïdes

4. psychopathes essentiels

Ces dernières sont les protagonistes récurrents de la pathocratie, et interviennent chronologiquement, à tour de rôle. Il n’est pas compliqué de comprendre leur rôle et le livre de Lobaczewski décrit ces personnalités en détail. Le lecteur intéressé trouvera davantage de données ici:

https://www.sott.net/article/412361-MindMatters-What-Is-A-Pathocracy

https://www.sott.net/article/360888-Wolf-Spotting-Why-Antifa-Is-a-Problem

ponerology.substack.com

This post has been filed under “personal focus” because it's neither accomplished nor perfect, but I wanted to write a few lines on a particular subject.

“Worldview warfare” is a symptom of something bigger.

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/the-long-road-of-degeneration

Worldview warfare is just one of them, and it’s more of a symptom than anything.

With this in mind, we could venture into a study of this “location” (wrong world views, wrong “takes”, wrong “opinions”, biases, etc); we should, however, retain the certainty that this is not the “cause” and that we are observing symptoms. This is important in the sense that we must tell ourselves that this is not all that is - and that there is an origin to what we are observing.

Here is an example:

https://www.cairn.info/revue-nouvelle-revue-de-psychosociologie-2009-1-page-225.htm

“Realism", "economic warfare", "globalization"... Society provides, via the social imaginary or via stereotypes and ideologies, ready-made rationalization discourses (…)

Cowardice and opportunism are the usual human condition.

But, that this is the condition we are in does not mean that this is who we are ;)

Still

People are valuing wrong principles.

A quick study shows that people have been made to value very wrong principles; we often find those in low-level “folk wisdom”. Example:

Christophe DEJOURS - “Suffering in France. The banalization of social injustice”

The ideology of economic realism consists, if we refer to what the clinic suggests - beyond the display of virility - in passing off cynicism as strength of character

“Be realistic, mate!”

“Get a job”

“I decided to become a shark of Wall Street“

<> Wrong principles

<> carried on within society

<> Acting as “wisdom models”

This is more or less what’s this post is about. And when it comes to “economical realism” we can see an aspect of “world view battle”. In addition, I believe it’s important to realize how much those are “symptoms” rather than “root cause”.

Here are variants, in the love domain:

“Starting today, I decided that I will never love again“

“To love 100% of all, or stopping loving 100% of the time?“

“Starting today, I decided that I will become a remorseless bastard“

We see a hidden common base, isn’t it? What is it?

Well - the above principles are quite cookie-cutter to say the least. The reason is that some knowledge is lacking, making us go cookie-cutter.

The cookie-cutter is due to the fact that world views see a “100% stuff” while it should be a “6% / 94%” stuff; let me explain.

• The human condition (here on the planet)

  • 94% normal people, 6% "remainder"

  • both conditioned at DNA level

    • the norm is 94% (not the 6%)

      • the 6% is a deviation from the norm

        • the 6% has different psychological qualities from the 94%

          • the 6% is a deviation at psychological level

            • its quality differs from the psychological condition of normal people in a negative ratio

              • the 6% represents a negative psychological deviance

                • psychopathological <> psychopathology

                • “the origin of evil in our society”

And so, the trick is to understand that we cannot go “100% all the time”, for whatever (or mostly); this is especially true while in society - because it’s a microcosm featuring a 94% - 6% (and so, no 100%). If we base ourselves for laying down models, those should express the variation.

Another point that becomes clear is that as long as the above state of affairs has not been acknowledged, the discrepancy will still manifest itself. Chances are that people’s minds will (unconsciously) try to look for a culprit of some sort - and looking for it elsewhere:

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-imago-dei

This hope that equalism will go away if we just shatter the taboos surrounding racial and sexual differences is incredibly naive. It gives too much credit to equalists for their readiness to change their minds in light of the evidence of their senses, which they’ve been happily ignoring for generations.

Now. Let’s think of all the theories, out there, science, models, etc that don’t include the knowledge of the existence of those 6%. All & everybody is at the same level, if we hear the manuals. A critical distinction is not taught.

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-imago-dei

I further argue that the popular belief in ‘equality under the law’ is also dangerously mistaken if it is taken to mean a ‘one size fits all’ law, as – given the influence of the idea of equality – this then leads to law that fails to account for the biological variety of human types, thereby contributing to societal decay.

I hope that the above illustration of a 6% / 94% highlights why “love all or love none” is wrong because it’s a wrong formulation (and why we hesitate so much and have so much difficulty to find the answer). This is still a very common question that many people stumble upon and find valid. This is a problem.

We frame the question in terms of “all or nothing” because (basically) we look at society as a whole huge “homogeneous chunk”.

The real question would be “should I love the 94% all the time?” - but even this question becomes difficult to answer, because psychopaths (6%) have been badly messing with the minds of the normal people (94%).

I don’t want to expand on the matter too much because this post intends to “gather quotes”; still, I feel compelled to write a quick decisive word about the 6% because there is a critical spec.

We tend to believe that we know who “psychopaths” are. If you look at your own definition of “problematic people”, you may see how you tie those to “visible signs of madness” (more or less).

The 6% we are speaking of are people who “haven’t broken with reality” (that’s the best quote I can come up with yet).

This has to deal with our “danger detection tool”, which would exclusively activate when we see:

• Down syndrome or alike

• knife in mouth, foaming mouth

• visible aggressivity, loud voices, etc

And so, the 6% / 94% leverages, too, things at this “level”. We would need to expand (or review) our definition of “psychopath”, because the 6% is about a specific “brand of people” who are perfectly at ease in society, but who’d have a different “way” in their minds.

Robert Hare, a psy specialized in the matter, said that the psychopaths in question are not detectable via visible symptoms. Let’s make this quote an absolute. Where does this lead us?

I suppose that, added to the above ideas, it suggests than to fashion ourselves an additional classification, for the people we may encounter. 6 people over a hundred.

Thinking of this, we see that we need to treat some people differently, that we shouldn’t use a “100% method all the time”. Most of the time, it’s not required. But the fact remains, that this seems to be a requirement; at least, let’s be more cautious, more aware and less “easy-going with all”. We need to learn this, and it’s not easy, because we have been spending decades into a mode that frames people in terms of “equality“.

The precise matter in this “treatment” has to deal with moral, too; only the 94% arre actually bound to moral; the 6% is not, and this may be a starting point for people eager to sort those things out a bit. The 6% requires a different tool and moralization should not be used whatseover. You may want to look at Lobaczewski’s “political ponerology” book when he speaks about moralization for many inputs on this matter.

And so let’s have a look at the state of affairs.

The state of affairs is:

• “psychopaths hidden among ourselves & spreading deviant ideas”

• “normal people’s minds negatively affected and acting as carriers for deviant ideas”

<> Spotting wrong ideas

<> Discerning their origin

BASIC CONCEPT: Understanding that there is an “alienation”

G.K. Chesterton - “The Napoleon of Notting Hill”

people listen with great attention and respect to everything the overheard have to say

mankind as a whole is mystical and frivolous, and delights in change.

the situation had become far more complex than it had ever been. the reason was that there were so many prophets and prophecies that it was difficult to evade all the consequences they had imagined, in their ingenuity.

All these eminent men were prophesying, with all sorts of different ingenuity, what was soon to happen, and they were basically all doing it in the same way, as they each chose some contemporary current to extend as far as their imagination would allow. This, they believed, was the surest way to anticipate the future.

It seemed very difficult to do anything without confirming one of their predictions.

We stopped seeing certain things we'd stopped talking about. Other things that rarely happened no longer happened at all.

And there was no longer the slightest reason to stop doing today what we had done yesterday.

Christophe DEJOURS – «Suffering in France - The banalization of social injustice»

Our hypothesis is that, since 1980, [...] society as a whole has undergone a qualitative transformation, to the point where it no longer reacts in the same way as it did in the past. To be more precise, we are essentially referring to an evolution in social reactions to suffering, misfortune and injustice. This evolution would be characterized by an attenuation of reactions of indignation, anger and collective mobilization for action in favor of solidarity and justice, while reactions of reserve, hesitation and perplexity, or even outright indifference, would develop, as well as collective tolerance of inaction and resignation in the face of injustice and the suffering of others. No analyst disputes this evolution. Many despair. Only the explanations for this phenomenon differ. It's hard to understand how a political mutation of this magnitude could have taken place in such a short space of time.

The problem, then, is that of enlisting good people in evil, as a management system, as an organizational principle.

The aim is to familiarize civil society with misfortune, to tame reactions of indignation and encourage resignation, and even to provide psychological preparation for suffering misfortune.

Christophe DEJOURS – “Work and mental wear - Essay on the psychopathology of work”

Against suffering, fear and dissatisfaction, we said, defensive systems are erected.

All this suffering and injustice inflicted on others is commonplace in all societies, including democratic ones. Here, we refer to all such behaviour as “evil” when it is :

- set up as a system of direction, command, organization or management, i.e. when they imply the involvement of all as victims, executioners, or victims and executioners alternately or simultaneously.

The investigation we propose ... once again opens the question ... of alienation ... i.e. graduated tolerance ... to an organization ... that goes against their desires, their needs and their health.

Alienation in the psychiatric sense, too, of replacing the Subject's own will ... Here, it's a case of alienation through defensive ideologies ... ...ends up confusing his own desires with the organizational injunction that has taken the place of his free will.

Marie-France HIRIGOYEN - “Abus de faiblesse“

"people who have been placed in a state of psychological subjection"

Roger Dorey took up this concept and developed it to describe the “relationship of grip” (1981). He distinguishes three main dimensions: an action of appropriation by dispossessing the other, an action of domination in which the other is kept in a state of submission and dependence, and an imprint on the other who is physically and psychologically marked. In his view, the primary aim of domination is to neutralize the desire of others, to reduce or cancel out their otherness and differences, and to reduce them to the status of totally assimilable objects.

WHERE DOES THIS ALIENATION COMES FROM?

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/when-protecting-national-security

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/the-long-road-of-degeneration

Basic idea

"... when your institution adopts the psychological methods of psychopathy, you open it to institutional capture by actual psychopaths... "

"... If you adopt the psychological techniques of a pathocracy, you’ll probably end up adopting the psychology (and psychological demographics) of a pathocracy..."

"... When you adopt the means of a psychopathic enemy, you put yourself within the “gravity well” of a ponerogenic telon or attractor..."

Example

I’ve been reading a book by Joseph P. Farrell lately

First, however, here is the passage that got my attention:

It is important to understand that psychological warfare operations developed during World War Two largely as a response to the totalitarian system of Nazi Germany, and its ideological understanding that psychological warfare was a “World View Warfare” [Weltanschauungskrieg]

…

He quotes Christopher Simpson, who wrote:

William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, then the director of the newly established U.S. intelligence agency Office of Strategic Services (OSS), viewed an understanding of Nazi psychological tactics as a vital source of ideas for ‘Americanized’ versions of many of the same stratagems. Use of the new term [“psychological warfare”] quickly became widespread throughout the U.S. intelligence community.

Consequence

Official Western society today is practically 100% worldview warfare.

Conclusion

Worldview warfare is (...) more of a symptom than anything

I included the above so as to not let the reader deep dive into “symptoms” and believe “it’s all there is”. Without the above theory, one may think of “things” as a flat plane, with all & everything at the same level. It’s kind of hard to assess the huge mess, but there are some ways. It is possible to sort out things, a bit.

And so, most of the quotes you will find below are merely symptoms than really firm explanations as to the root cause (which is to be found at the level of “an alienation due to psychopathology”).

Ideally, I'd like to achieve some sort of sorting of the quotations that the reader will find below; it's complicated to determine such a sorting, because I don't know where to start. A society made up of 94% normal people and 6% psychopaths produces an environment with many intertwined factors.

We can, however, observe several points, and thus begin to sort them out.

We could determine, as a first classification, a datum that is rarely represented in psychology treatises: the human being would be on a path towards the polarity of Service Of Others - moving away from the polarity of Service Of Self. We could thus delineate things in such a way that psychopaths would have the object of perpetuating the polarity of Service to Self.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to tidy up the quotations in the future. Another way would be to focus on hereditary deviances, as presented by Lobaczewski; schizoidism, for example, is a deviance conditioned at the DNA level and which leads the affected person to automatically adopt a “pejorative view of human nature”. Among the 6%, there's another deviance - “essential psychopathy”, which translates into genuine predation on normal people, to the point of domination. Here, we can undoubtedly lump many of the quotations into one of these two categories.

SYMPTOMS

G.K. Chesterton - “The Fools' Club”

... I have known many people who have decided to be original. An art school is full of such people

... they go with the flow. They do these things because they're done; because that's the way things are done in their bohemian world. Contempt for convention is their convention. I don't mind them; I find them very amusing; but that doesn't mean I'm incapable of recognizing real personality and independence when I meet them. It's all fluid, formless;

https://aprilnovoa.substack.com/p/people-are-not-projects

People are NOT your projects.

If they value what you have to say or what you know, they will ask.

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/celebrity-trans-kids

cluster B attention whoring receives validation and praise

https://markbisone.substack.com/p/grok-meets-mark-part-2

similar to ones that human beings experience, when listening to the claims of other humans: What’s your source? Is your source authoritative? And, if so, from whom or what does it derive that authority?

I am the highest possible authority on my own work

https://vanguardistjournal.substack.com/p/a-spiderweb-of-interrogations-without

the decentralized cross-generational trend of individuals seeking influencer status

https://www.hackingnarcissism.com/p/culturalillness

a craving for validation

influence becomes a performance

public identity replaces inner life

https://thomassheridan.substack.com/p/a-wild-unhinged-reaction-to-my-covid

As soon as I stated this—in a cordial and non-preachy manner—his face contorted as if some alien force had entered his body. During my day-to-day interactions, I am always self-aware to never find myself proselytizing to others about anything.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-164170241

they did not believe the condition to be a form of mental illness, but rather a response to then-current Japanese socio-economic conditions. Even the Japanese Ministry of Health echoed this sentiment when they described hikokomori phenomenon as psycho-sociological rather than a psychotic condition akin to schizophrenia or a psychological disorder like depression.

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-involution-of-the-liberal-mind

their entire worldview seems to be formed by the ersatz experiences of visual entertainment

https://substack.com/@manniratliff/note/c-122809349

That’s because in addition to a drug to be consumed, empathy is also a kind of currency. And just like all sane mediums of trade, it must conform to the law of scarcity.

https://www.sott.net/article/499659-The-Left-Turns-Right

inseparably intertwined with the emotional manipulation of white empathy and the leveraging of European human rights law in order to facilitate the replacement of European peoples with illiterate chancers from the third world.

https://disaffectedpod.substack.com/p/human-book-covers

It’s worth noting that admonitions that warn you away from making judgments are convenient for people who don’t want to be judged. That may be their preference, what has that to do with your interests? Are you truly committing a moral wrong by exercising your faculties, weighting risks, and making a discriminating choice, even if it’s based on less than complete or perfect data?

Or, is it that you exercising your faculties is highly inconvenient to the type of people who do wrong but want to be seen to do right?

https://substack.com/home/post/p-162420702

to rob the audience of the possibility of experiencing it or of making up their own minds.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-164300391

To the materialist—much less his midwit cousin, the effective altruist—your life is about maximizing the good of “human” lives (either yours or the maximal number of others’ human lives). What is good? Who knows. They don’t. What is human? They don’t know that either. But this yeasty idea is baked into the cake of that drunken shibboleth: for the greater good.

https://tesstamona.substack.com/p/what-if-i-told-you

Understand human psychology. Not hard at all. People do shit that rewards them. People don’t like doing shit that delivers what they don’t want. People have certain hardwired needs, but these can be mitigated with synthetic replacements, so no real issues there for an engineer.

https://www.sott.net/article/500107-Impervious-to-Suffering

There is no better word for this than indoctrination: people are being taught what is right and wrong, and being taught what the punishment is for being wrong.

https://www.hackingnarcissism.com/p/scapegoat

Perpetrators often frame themselves as victims to justify their abuse. That’s why behavioural patterns, not emotional narratives, reveal what’s actually happening

https://substack.com/home/post/p-164369066

Let me tell you what nobody talks about when they discuss gaslighting: it’s not just psychological abuse. It’s neurological warfare.

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Here’s how it works:

Your implicit memory system recorded the abuse. Your body remembers the tension, the fear, the hypervigilance. Your nervous system filed away every detail of threat and danger.

But your explicit memory system? That got fucked with. Constantly. Until you couldn’t trust what you consciously remembered because it was always being “corrected” by someone who needed you confused to maintain control.

“Gaslighting doesn’t just question your memory — it trains your brain to question itself.”

This creates what researchers call “dissociative gaps” — spaces where your explicit and implicit memories don’t match. Your body knows something happened, but your conscious mind has been trained to dismiss that knowing.

The result? You walk around feeling like you’re going crazy because your internal alarm system is screaming while your conscious mind is saying “nothing happened.”

https://garyhouchens.substack.com/p/the-pope-and-the-press

Without offering a single word of condemnation, Pope Leo XIV’s comments echo Levin’s call for journalists to move beyond performative communication

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/word-of-power-levels-of-the-rising

One of the more amusing misconceptions that white liberals cleave to is that ‘racism’ is a function of ignorance. Lack of exposure to other peoples leads to the proliferation of stereotypes based on distorted third-hand information, which then curdles into ‘hatred’, ‘bigotry’, ‘xenophobia’, and all the rest of the mean scary words. Thus the perennial liberal imperative “Educate yourself!” whenever they encounter someone making a general statement about a group, which of course is what is meant by ‘racism’.

https://www.hackingnarcissism.com/p/scapegoat

Why scapegoating happens

one that perceives discomfort as a threat rather than a signal.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-164229092

My advice: anytime you observe someone is relying upon silence for social dominance, break the silence.

https://substack.com/@markbisone/note/c-119835968

I started noticing this in the 90's: a style of speaking and argument that seemed deliberately complicated, in order to disguise what I now recognize as plain, old-fashioned evil. Evil thoughts, evil desires. A burning hatred of beauty and truth, buried so deep that even they didn’t quite understand it. So, they cloaked it inside big words, built logic loops the size of the Hadron Collider to confuse and drain us.

Meanwhile, the truth they despise the most is a simple one. And it's currently barreling towards them like a freight train.

https://substack.com/@pedrogonzalez/note/c-118874042

A teacher once told me “The world will try to steal your heart” and I didn’t understand what he meant until I got older and still with time those words become realer and heavier. I remember when he said it the classroom fell silent because we were too young to get it, as if the theft would be announced in advance, like a boot against the door that would alert us and therefore enable us to stop it. But it happens little by little. Pieces at a time. Until one day you realize something has been lost and you have to get it back.

https://substack.com/@rohanghostwind/note/c-117172202

Why solve problems when we can “add texture” to the conversation.

https://www.hackingnarcissism.com/p/toxicfem

Assimilation is not the same as conformity. Conformity is behavioural — fitting in through visible adjustments, whereas assimilation goes deeper. Assimilation is the psychological and moral reshaping of the self in order to be granted conditional access to a dominant group, system, or identity. It’s the slow rewriting of your values, instincts, and voice so they match what’s rewarded.

There are three types of assimilation:

Active assimilation, whereby you deliberately adopt the dominant tone, stance, and language to gain access and protection.

Partial assimilation, whereby you mimic the dominant culture just enough to be tolerated, but never fully accepted.

Passive assimilation, whereby you don’t even realise it’s happening. You’ve internalised the norms so well you think they’re your own.

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If you’ve ever found yourself absent-mindedly parroting a phrase you didn’t fully believe, nodding in agreement just to avoid discomfort, or hesitating to ask a clarifying question out of fear of looking unenlightened, you’re in the process of assimilation. Not because you’re insincere, but because you’re adaptive. You’re trying to survive the correct moral expectations of the moment and succeed by being a great ambassador for the feminism arm of the moral industrial complex.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-159932984

In yesterday's essay on 'Parallel Realities,' I explored how algorithmic sorting and information manipulation have created fragmented realities where we no longer share a common understanding of facts.

Today, I'll dig into the flip side: why our minds cling to beliefs despite evidence of manipulation.

In my previous work, I've explored how our information landscape is systematically engineered through algorithmic division (‘Engineering Reality‘), institutional narratives (‘Reading Between the Lies’), and the systematic dismissal of pattern recognition (‘That Can't Be True’).

The other half lies within us – the psychological mechanisms that make us resistant to changing our minds even when confronted with overwhelming evidence.

https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1886916914397766099

This isn’t journalism—it’s perception warfare.

https://markbisone.substack.com/p/what-reaches-back

Is sorcery a technology? Yes. But it’s one that’s rooted in pseudo-science, meaning that it can produce or describe real phenomena without a left-hemispheric explanation of their mechanics.

https://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/the-6-grand-illusions-that-keep-us-enslaved-to-the-matrix

The illusion of choice and freedom is a powerful oppressor because it fools us into accepting chains and short leashes as though they were the hallmarks of liberty.

Multiple choice is different than freedom, it is easy servitude.

https://www.sott.net/article/318740-Illusion-of-choice-How-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds

the #1 psychological ingredient in slot machines: intermittent variable rewards.

If you want to maximize addictiveness, all tech designers need to do is link a user's action (like pulling a lever) with a variable reward.

But here's the unfortunate truth — several billion people have a slot machine their pocket:

When we pull our phone out of our pocket, we're playing a slot machine to see what notifications we got.

When we pull to refresh our email, we're playing a slot machine to see what new email we got.

When we swipe down our finger to scroll the Instagram feed, we're playing a slot machine to see what photo comes next.

When we swipe faces left/right on dating apps like Tinder, we're playing a slot machine to see if we got a match.

When we tap the # of red notifications, we're playing a slot machine to what's underneath.

Hijack #3: Fear of Missing Something Important (FOMSI)

Hijack #4: Social Approval

Hijack #5: Social Reciprocity (Tit-for-tat)

You do me a favor — I owe you one next time.

You say, “thank you”— I have to say “you’re welcome.”

You send me an email— it’s rude not to get back to you.

You follow me — it’s rude not to follow you back. (especially for teenagers)

We are vulnerable to needing to reciprocate others’ gestures.

Hijack #6: Bottomless bowls, Infinite Feeds, and Autoplay

Another way to hijack people is to keep them consuming things, even when they aren’t hungry anymore.

How? Easy. Take an experience that was bounded and finite, and turn it into a bottomless flow that keeps going.

Hijack #7: Instant Interruption vs. “Respectful” Delivery

Companies know that messages that interrupt people immediately are more persuasive

Hijack #8: Bundling Your Reasons with Their Reasons

Hijack #9: Inconvenient Choices

We’re told that it’s enough for businesses to “make choices available.”

http://nxhx.org/Choicemaking/#addiction

Visible Promises

Without an idea of what the user hopes for with a choice, it seems impossible to surface information about better options or related values

https://morgoth.substack.com/p/britains-bonfire-of-authenticity

A curiosity of Britain in the 2020s is that everyone knows in the marrow of their bones that things are bad while being cognisant that the current state of things has no formal expression in artistic or satirical form. Britain is now synonymous with words such as “Orwellian” and “dystopian” which are themselves linked with concepts like grooming gang, immigration, refugees in hotels, hate speech, NHS waiting lists, and variations on people being arrested for social media posts.

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/threads/the-reality-of-the-jewish-holocaust.35775/post-517758

What we're dealing with is a pathological element in humanity that - throughout history - ends up hurting and killing people.

https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/reflections-august-2012/

relativism—the idea that there are no absolute truths—would lead to the decay of morality and a lack of virtue within society. Without a belief in and the teaching of universal moral laws, we fail to educate the heart and are left with intelligent men who behave like animals or as Lewis puts it, “Men without Chests.”

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/threads/throw-the-jews-down-the-well.3558/post-22735

Acceptance of the legitimacy of the State of Israel is fundamentally different from the acceptance of the legitimacy of any other State in the world because, in the case of Israel, it implies acceptance of the basic claim of the Zionist Jews that God gave Palestine to them as an "ever-lasting possession.

https://stuartbramhall.substack.com/p/watergate-was-pedogate-70-of-top

political power does not reside with publicly elected representatives

inspired law enforcement officials to swap their assumption that drug trafficking consisted of pockets of independent criminal activity, for the fact it is a global network coordinated by the CIA

https://substack.com/@thumbnailgreen/note/c-81337244

your own internal morality trumps external laws

https://tesstamona.substack.com/p/influences-of-lucifer-and-ahriman

A dynamic tension exists because of the contrary demands

https://ponerology.substack.com/p/my-interview-with-unbekoming

The materialistic worldview is untenable, leaving huge gaps in our picture of reality, distorting what “geography” it does encompass, and placing value in strange places.

https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/stop-arguing-with-demons

“Never answer a question unless you accept the parameters of the question.”

Never agree to “argue,”

https://www.sott.net/article/496889-Woke-insanity-Princeton-to-offer-classes-on-erotic-dance-sex-work-and-queer-spaces

Higher education has become far less about educating ... far more about indoctrination

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/threads/high-level-ex-member-of-german-elite-family-reveals-secrets-of-how-global-elites-operate-nazi-cia-and-mk-ultra-background.55374/

"select out the most intelligent, then traumatize them, then groom/rebuild them in order that they perceive/equate their sense of self-worth only with achievement/accomplishment".

https://substack.com/@luctalks/note/c-103464430

IQ determines the level of discourse one can participate in, but has nothing to do with truth, except insofar as some forms of truthful discourse require a certain IQ level.

High-IQ discourse often involves quickly throwing around difficult concepts, 2nd degree meta reflections etc. Not to mention math and very complex language, depending on the issue.

But IQ alone says nothing (except for limit cases) about your grasp of reality, i.e. how these complex concepts relate to deeper truth. The latter seems to be related to a kind of holistic right-hemisphere thinking, a "depth of perception informed by depth of character".

Comments - What Is the Matrix? - by Harrison Koehli (substack.com)

I think the reason figures like Tate are able to garner the notoriety they do is precisely due to their characteropathy. One of the traits that comes with e.g. sociopathy is a lack of concern with what others think of you.

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Your comment reminded me of a movie theater experience when I was a teenager. It was after an X-Men movie, and some random kid said something like this while exiting the theater: "Man, Wolverine is so cool, he like doesn't care about ANYthing." I was thinking, uh, there are a lot of reasons to think Wolverine is cool, but that ain't one of them!

I think a lot of people envy the psychopath's inner calm and "confidence."

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I don't watch Yellowstone, but some friends were talking about it, and a particularly violent character, and how some women of their acquaintance love him because "he's such a good protector." In real life, dude would probably beat his wife too.

These kinds of things are what Lobaczewski called "para-adequate" or "para-adaptive" responses. Yeah, confidence, physical strength, cool under pressure, are good things. But when the person you're seeing them in is a psychopath, you're not seeing what you think you're seeing, and you'll end up paying for the error in perception.

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Another trick: I can say openly - and without a word of a lie - that through my idiosyncratic genius I was able to convert $8.95 into $100,000,000,000,000 in a single week by trading currencies. Annualise THAT, CNBC!

Again: let's assume that a dollar is a dollar... when in reality the fact that A$8.95 was enough to buy[2] a 2008 Z$100,000,000,000,000 note, doesn't alter the fact that my purchasing power went backwards by A$8.9499.

This is the 'embedded asterisk' that has to be looked for in every utterance of the political class and their minions. Even people like Glenn Greenwald fall for it, when he says he is a 'free speech absolutist' for all legal speech.

The asterisk in Greenwald's Freeze Peach advocacy is restricting the field to 'legal' speech. Most constraints on expression are eventually legislated - 'legal' should be the very last criterion used to justify restrictions on expression.

Tonic Masculinity - by John Carter - Postcards From Barsoom (substack.com)

As an aside, a close friend of mine woke up a few years ago and got it into his single-minded head that it was time to solve the Family Question. He picked up Roosh’s final (and no longer available, you rat bastard, Roosh) book Game, and applied the seduction tools therein. After a couple of false starts and less than a year he got hitched to a very high quality woman, and he is now happily married and the stressed-out father of two strong and beautiful children. I mention this to emphasize that Game 1) works and, 2) like any tool, contains exactly zero moral weight. You can use it to be a fuckboi the way most PUAs did back in the naughty oughties when they were developing their psychoemotional arsenal, and find yourself emotionally unfulfilled and unable to bond when the music stops and the party’s over; or you can use it to get married and start a family.

LucTalks

Against the Psychologization of Philosophy

I. Reducing a thinker’s work to his character and disposition has been the fashionable thing to do for a long time now. We say that Nietzsche hated the church because of his daddy issues, or because he was a weakling compensating his inferiority complex with bombastic will-to-power prose. Or, if we are Nietzscheans, we say that the Apostle Paul was a sne…

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2 years ago · 55 likes · 9 comments · L.P. Koch

Reducing a thinker’s work to his character and disposition has been the fashionable thing to do for a long time now. We say that Nietzsche hated the church because of his daddy issues, or because he was a weakling compensating his inferiority complex with bombastic will-to-power prose. Or, if we are Nietzscheans, we say that the Apostle Paul was a sneaky fraud whose talk about the primacy of love was just his way of gaining power without actually having it in him. Similar theories have surely been advanced for every philosopher, thinker and mystic known to man: fatherlessness, repression & internalization; defense mechanisms, complexes & ticks; provincialism, sexual frustration & disappointment; poverty, carelessness & bad experiences; the list is endless.

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Let’s stop fantasizing about the supposed psychological motivations of thinkers, but read them and ponder what they had to say—even when it goes against the zeitgeist and our existing beliefs. Especially then, in fact.

https://www.sott.net/article/362759-Confirmation-bias-People-ignore-facts-that-contradict-their-false-beliefs

A well-established central finding of psychological research, concerning "confirmation bias" or "motivated reasoning" (which are two phrases referring to people's tendency to believe whatever they want to believe, regardless of any contrary facts), is that individuals evaluate whatever they read or hear according to their pre-existing ideas about the given subject. Specifically, psychologists have found that people tend to pay attention to whatever confirms their existing ideas, and tend to ignore whatever contradicts those pre-established beliefs.

"We find a confirmation bias - the seeking out of confirmatory evidence - when [people] are free to self-select the source of arguments they read. Both the confirmation and disconfirmation biases lead to attitude polarization ... especially among those with the strongest priors [prior beliefs] and highest level of political sophistication [the highest degree of exposure to, and involvement in, the given subject-matter that the study was dealing with]." Prejudices were stronger among supposed experts than among non-"experts": The more indoctrinated a person was, the more prejudiced. "People actively denigrate the information with which they disagree, while accepting compatible information almost at face value." Moreover, "Those with weak and uninformed attitudes show less bias"

https://www.sott.net/article/427545-The-Power-of-Bad-How-to-overcome-your-brains-negativity-bias

Why can't we pull our attention away from a traffic accident or stop watching news about the latest viral outbreak? Why are we waylaid by criticism or unable to get past a minor snub from our best friend?

That's our negativity bias. We humans have a propensity to give more weight in our minds to things that go wrong than to things that go right

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JS: What was one of the most surprising findings from the research on negativity bias?

John Tierney: There are lots of little surprising things to me — like the fact that you get almost no credit for doing more than you promised to do, for going beyond and doing extra, but you get penalized severely for what you don't do.

RB: If I had to pick one finding, in particular, it would be that people learn more and faster from punishment and reward. I've heard educators say that we shouldn't criticize students or shouldn't give bad marks; but giving both reward and punishment — both praise and criticism — is best, for informational purposes. If you have to pick just one, the negative feedback stimulates learning faster than the positive. That was the biggest surprise to me.

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JS: In your book, you refer to the "Negative Golden Rule." Can you explain what that is and why it's important in relationships?

RB: Well, the standard Golden Rule that we learned as a child is "Do unto others as you want them to do unto you." But given that bad is stronger than good, the priority should be "Do not do unto others what you do not want done unto you." It's about focusing on eliminating the negative rather than cultivating the positive. Both are good, but eliminating the negative should get priority.

https://www.sott.net/article/245783-Perspective-Taking-A-Strategy-for-Overcoming-Bias

Most people are pretty bad at taking advice from others. People don't mind hearing the advice, they just hate to take it. This is one facet of what psychologists call the 'egocentric bias': the general rule that we think we know better.

https://www.sott.net/article/314386-The-Truth-Perspective-Propaganda-cognitive-bias-The-battle-for-your-mind

So basically we have this idea of cognitive bias. It refers to a 'systematic pattern and deviation from norm in rationality and judgement' - says Wikipedia - 'whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. Individuals create their own subjective social reality from their perception of the input. An individuals construction of social reality not the objective input may dictate their behaviour in the social world. Thus cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perpetual distortion, inaccurate judgement, illogical interpretation or what is broadly called irrationality.'

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'Some cognitive biases are presumably adaptive. Cognitive biases may lead to more effective actions in a given context. Furthermore cognitive biases enable faster decisions when timeliness is more valuable than accuracy, as illustrated in Heuristics. Other cognitive biases are a a by-product of human processing limitations, resulting from a lack of appropriate mental mechanisms bound to rationality or simply from a limited capacity for information processing.'

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Researchers have identified bias arising from processes that are sometimes difficult to distinguish and they include: information processing short cuts, heuristics.

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It kind of ties into this availability heuristic; the media has such dominance over the information that is put out to people that it's able to be the driving force between what people do and don't know.

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So the misconception of confirmation bias is that: Your opinions are the result of years of rational objective analysis. The truth is: Your opinions are the result of years of paying attention to information that confirmed what you believed while ignoring information that challenged your preconceived notions. So with the example that you gave Elan, we can easily dismiss information for whatever reason,

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Every time we get a piece of information we should be adding that to our moveable baseline.

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knowledge for knowledge's sake is crucially important

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We've talked about the Information Field before on the show. The general idea, to try to paraphrase is that there are different fields of knowledge and it's not necessarily all good or all bad. There's these fields that exist and basically as human beings we can tap into those things.

Expressive Egg

Hell No

The lowest point is as it were the obscure reflection or the inverted image of the highest point, from which follows the consequence, paradoxical only in appearance, that the most complete absence of…

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extimacy (‘the haunting feeling of being simultaneously close to every-one who is far away and far away from everyone you are close to’)

https://pubhtml5.com/ejtz/nyck/

But if conformity has its dangers, so has non-conformity.

Some "advanced thinkers" are of opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion must be in the right. This is a delusion; if it were not, truth would be easier to come by than it is. There are infinite possibilities of error, and more cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths. I met once an electrical engineer

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The discovery that man can be scientifically manipulated, and that governments can turn large masses this way or that as they choose, is one of the causes of our misfortunes. There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community moulded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between a heap of raw materials and a battleship. Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm.

LucTalks

Against the Psychologization of Philosophy

I. Reducing a thinker’s work to his character and disposition has been the fashionable thing to do for a long time now. We say that Nietzsche hated the church because of his daddy issues, or because he was a weakling compensating his inferiority complex with bombastic will-to-power prose. Or, if we are Nietzscheans, we say that the Apostle Paul was a sne…

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2 years ago · 55 likes · 9 comments · L.P. Koch

The problem with psychologizing people’s insights is that we arbitrarily stop the buck at a point of our convenience

https://www.sott.net/article/485313-The-War-on-Horror-or-Whatever

At the moment, we're being inundated with narratives, the official narrative, the unofficial narrative, the official unofficial narrative, the alternative official narrative, the alternative unofficial narrative, the bull-goose-loony unofficial narrative, etc., all of which is standard procedure

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/threads/humanity-is-deciding-if-it-will-evolve-or-die.46150/post-768869

An important point about empathy, I think, is that it seems to be defined by some form of sacrifice or suffering or struggle. At least, there can't be anything clearly in it for, or that directly benefits, the 'empathic' person. Consider a virtue like forgiveness. It's not really a virtue to forgive if it's easy. For it to be a virtue, you have to forgive the 'unforgivable', which requires giving something of the self. Likewise sacrifice, it's not noble if there's a conceived benefit for you, in fact, it's not even a sacrifice.

Think about you benefiting from the lifetime work of another person. That person usually had to sacrifice and struggle to gain that knowledge, which they make available to you. They didn't do it specifically for you - they did it as a combination of their own desire to know and to share that knowledge with others - but you benefit from their sacrifice. That's an example of empathy. Not only that, it's an example of an informed empathy because the person isn't deciding the needs of others, they are simply making valuable (and potentially life changing) information available to all, if they choose to receive it. Many choose not to.

In the end, the only really successful way of helping others from a 'do no harm' point of view, is to make efforts and sacrifices to uncover basic truths of human existence and then make it as widely available as possible. Now and again you might be able to transmit it directly to others, but there seems to be a 'free will' law that prevails, i.e. each person must ultimately help themselves by choosing to do so. They can, however, be helped in an indirect way by others.

All that said, we should also strive to be as considerate and loving to others as possible, but sometimes doing that doesn't look or sound like most people's definition of considerate and loving. It's not easy for sure, but then again, 'no pain (sacrifice') no gain'.

https://cassiopaea.org/forum/threads/the-coming-a-boeing-whistleblowers-warning.21269/post-1166915

… more young people want to have “a good life in those manager classes“ while having done little to nothing to deserve it (for example having practically zero practical experience/knowledge). Which results in ever more purely theoretical people in management classes who are quite disconnected from practice and reality. Overpaid and aloof. That trend keeps expanding without any end at sight.

LucTalks

Against the Psychologization of Philosophy

I. Reducing a thinker’s work to his character and disposition has been the fashionable thing to do for a long time now. We say that Nietzsche hated the church because of his daddy issues, or because he was a weakling compensating his inferiority complex with bombastic will-to-power prose. Or, if we are Nietzscheans, we say that the Apostle Paul was a sne…

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2 years ago · 55 likes · 9 comments · L.P. Koch

… what if it is he who just talks in psychological language because he was humiliated once by his classics teacher and is on a crusade against philosophy ever since, seeking to undermine the whole thing with his reductio-ad-temperament?

We could play this game endlessly. At which point are we prepared to actually take someone’s thought on its own merits? To acknowledge that there is such a thing as true and good thought, as opposed to faulty and degrading thought? Or correct, logical, insightful ideas, as opposed to chaotic, misleading and stupid ones?

To add to the pantheon of psychologizations, the real pathology here seems to be this: by offering a so-called explanation for why someone advanced this or that idea, we belittle it: we don’t have to take it seriously. The implication here is that if we name a cause (the psychology), then dealing with that which is caused (the ideas) would be a waste of time, the wrong place in the causal chain to focus our attention on

… we usually have an earthy reason for focussing on a certain element in the causal chain, which in the case of shifting attention from someone’s argument to his biography, is to dismiss the argument. What’s really important here, we imply, is not a thinker’s observation or its inner logic, but the “root” of it all, namely his psychology.

This works so well because it is generally true that chasing for “root causes” is a utilitarian endeavor: we name the cause so that we can fix a problem important to us.

… when someone names a thinker’s psychology as the cause for his theories, we instinctively ignore the latter and focus on the so-called root cause; but this is just a mind trick playing on our relationship with causality, not an actual argument for why we should prioritize psychological explanations over the content of the thought in question.

A useful distinction to make here, it seems to me, is between the quality of someone’s experience and its form: the quality is about the depth of perception, the subtle richness and nimbleness of the mind’s movements, about someone’s skill—rooted in Being—of using his mind to illuminate existence. Such quality of experience has to do with a long-standing taste for truth and, based on that, the perfection of one’s faculties.

The form of experience, on the other hand, is where we find the usual psychological categories: personality traits, preferences, life circumstances that form one’s character and are in turn formed by it, and so on.

LucTalks

How To Read Without Getting Triggered

Language is not about words and their supposedly direct connection with physical objects. Sure, there are limit cases; but for the most part, that’s not how it works. Language is about connecting to larger thought forms, and sharing a “pointer” to that thought form with others…

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3 years ago · 26 likes · 22 comments · L.P. Koch

Sure, it helps to ask, “what do you mean by that?”—but if the connection to the relevant thought form simply cannot be made by one party, a connection that depends on much deeper things than mere definitions, then communication can only fail, no matter how many definitions we provide.

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If we accept the model of language I outlined here, then it becomes clear why there are so many emotionally charged misunderstandings, especially when it comes to politics and religion. Essentially, we get triggered and fail to connect to the thought form the other person wants us to connect to.

To give an example, those who feel alienated from the power structure of the Western world use a variety of words to convey their grievances. In the US especially, people like to call what we are living through “communism” and “Marxism.” Others, more often so in Europe, talk about “global capitalism” or “financial capitalism.”

Oftentimes, the different camps use such words to express the same, deep-rooted agony towards a system that can only be described as soul-sucking oppression of all that is True, Good, and Beautiful.

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Another good example for how language works that way are the familiar fist-fights around religion, God, atheism, theology, and so on. Again, it is about “thought-complex experience” rather than fictional word-object relationships.

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This dynamic is one of the many reasons why the downfall of the humanities has been such a tragedy.

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At their best, the humanities had been a way of connecting to the deepest and brightest of thought complexes, and keeping the connection alive even as words and language change.

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These works, and the discussion of them, can touch the well of our existence for those capable of such feats, no matter their superficial preferred political or religious words. When such people come together, and weed out those who connect only to very base, superficial, and shallow thought forms unhinged from truthful experience of the cosmos, no matter on which side they are on, then there is much hope.

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https://www.sott.net/article/490503-How-to-spot-the-next-mania-Each-new-panic-follows-the-same-playbook

For me, since roughly 2012, what has therefore been more disturbing than the content of any given hysteria is our continuing susceptibility to collective derangement, which can spread and take hold with alarming rapidity in a digital era. To examine the unnerving phenomenon of the communal fever, often destructive but rarely contested at its height, in my most recent novel Mania I invented my own. Suddenly everyone accepts that all humans are equally intelligent, and "cognitive discrimination" is "the last great civil rights fight". In other words, there's no such thing as stupid. Because that assertion is itself stupid, my concocted mania seems apt.

(…)

Take trans. Gender-identity disorder was not that long ago an extraordinarily rare psychiatric diagnosis largely constrained (...)

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The social mania displays a few consistent characteristics. First and foremost, it never seems like a social mania at the time. In the thick of a widespread preoccupation, its precepts simply seem like the truth.

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While the seeds of a mania have often been planted earlier, for most ordinary people it comes out of nowhere.

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Moreover, all these recent examples illustrate how moral panics have become more international in scope than ever before.

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Manias are fuelled by emotion. The cult of trans has capitalised on our yearning to seem enlightened and compassionate. It has been presented as the logical next step after gay rights, the movement plays on our craving to feel ultra-contemporary.

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All manias thrive on our desire to be included by our own herd and on our anxiety about being exiled — or, if you will, about being UnHerded.

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Because a proper mania brooks no dissent.

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Manias are prone to grow increasingly extreme, accumulating evermore casualties before collapsing from their contradictions.

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Yet both the priests and disciples of moral panics are driven by good intentions. They genuinely believe they are doing God's work. Aggressively virtuous, "wokeness" is one big bundle of mania.

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Some hysterias die an easier death than others.

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Nevertheless, a social frenzy seldom subsides because its agitators announce they were addled, just as the masses of ordinary people caught up in the derangement seldom acknowledge having been led astray. Everyone simply moves on, only to become consumed by something else.

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Once manias die down, most people pretend they never believed these things to begin with.

https://www.sott.net/article/469811-Propaganda-Trudeau-style

Bernays emphasized in Propaganda that "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country"

We can look at these strategies as a way to reflect on the recent media propaganda

1) If you manipulate the leader of a group, the people will follow

2) Words are powerful, and the key to influencing group emotions is through the clever use of language

3) Any medium of communication is also a medium for propaganda

4) Reiterating the same idea over and over creates habits and convictions

5) One can manipulate individual actions by creating circumstances that modify group customs

Time-tested propaganda strategies for framing a discussion, and weaponizing it against a group

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-omega-perspective

My advice is that he sit down and read Aristotle’s Rhetoric and focus on truly understanding the difference between dialectic and rhetoric.

It’s very, very common for those who strongly prefer dialectic to be uncomfortable with rhetoric and to regard it as lying, even though the most effective rhetoric is that which points toward the truth, regardless of the verity of the actual words expressed.

All communication can be redefined as deception and manipulation.

https://www.eurosiberia.net/p/nationalism-against-the-world-machine

German author Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) …

measured the world through contour and force.

His gaze remained fixed while regimes fell, while flags changed their color. He drew the outline of the figure who holds bearing while storms pass.

Ce post est un exercice qui essaie d’étudier le mal dans la société.

Il s’agit ici de la nature du “mal” - et la vision naturelle du monde est caractérisée par une sous-estimation de l’existence de ce dernier - au profit unique de “la recherche du bonheur”.

Ce qui suit est très exigeant pour “l’esprit”. J’essaie d’expliquer la manipulation globale de la recherche du bonheur, dans le contexte situé par la liste de la condition humaine.

Ne lisez pas ce qui suit si vous pensez être susceptible de réagir avec de l’émotion, si vous avez votre niveau de bonheur trop affecté - ou si c’est la première fois que vous prenez connaissance d’un article sur la psychologie. Je vous préviens, c’est exigeant, ce sont des mécanismes à approcher avec prudence.

Je me suis basé sur l’idée suivante:

La condition humaine

• 94% de gens normaux, 6% de "reste"

• conditionné au niveau de l'ADN

  • la norme est 94% (et pas le 6%)

    • le 6% est une déviation de la norme

      • le 6% présente des qualités psychologiques différentes du 94%

        • le 6% est une déviation au niveau psychologique

          • sa qualité se distingue de la condition psychologique des gens normaux en un rapport négatif

            • le 6% représente une déviance psychologique négative

              • psychopathologique

Merci à Substacker Tesstamona pour son podcast sur Rudolf Steiner ; il commence par exprimer comment « la condition humaine » est liée à « une dynamique de tension » qui « place les humains face à une situation permanente d'apports/de choix contradictoires ».

Cela m'a amené à réfléchir à ce que A. Lobaczewski explique: il existe parmi ces 6% une psychopathie encore plus spécifique - “la psychopathie essentielle” (héréditaire, ADN) et qui n'a pas encore été repérée - ces personnes spécifiques (psychopathes essentiels) sont donc « en roue libre », dans notre société. Quid de la “source de tension”… de phénomènes contradictoires pour l’esprit…

Il y a encore de l'espoir, car le Dr Karen MITCHELL, une psy, a récemment repéré cliniquement ce qu'elle a appelé la « personnalité prédatrice persistante ».

Une énorme “dynamique de tension “semble exister, faisant que les personnes normales sont constamment confrontées à des données et à des choses contradictoires - et cela semble lié au moment où elles se retrouvent dans des relations intersubjectives (= « lorsqu'elles interagissent dans la société »).

Cela correspond aux conclusions de Christophe Dejours (un psy français), qui déclare :

Et du même coup, c’était la « normalité » qui surgissait comme énigme centrale de l’investigation et de l’analyse. Normalité qui se donne d’emblée comme un équilibre instable, fondamentalement précaire, entre souffrance et défenses contre la souffrance (...)

Faire du champ de la normalité une énigme ouverte à la liberté de la volonté (...) des agents, c’est rompre du même coup avec les modèles issus du behaviorisme, du pavlovisme et du stress. C’est aussi et surtout concevoir la normalité comme produit d’une dynamique humaine où les relations intersubjectives (pour construire les stratégies défensives, voire offensives, contre la souffrance) occupent la position centrale.

Relevons le concept de “normalité” que l’on retrouve chez Lobaczewski (“gens normaux”), qui nous indique:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Ponérologie politique”

Après tout, les gens psychologiquement normaux constituent à la fois la grande majorité statistique et la base réelle de la vie en société dans chaque communauté. Selon les lois naturelles, ce sont donc eux qui devraient donner le ton ; c’est de leur nature que dérivent les lois de la morale. Le pouvoir devrait être aux mains de gens normaux. Le [psychiatre du mal] demande seulement que les autorités apprennent à comprendre ces gens moins normaux et qu’elles basent leurs lois sur cette compréhension.

Le mal a été identifié

Ainsi, la présence des 6% représente en réalité “le mal” - pour les gens normaux. Pour eux, le mal c’est “ce qui est mal”, alors qu’il semble possible d’exprimer des idées plus précises.

Un problème subsiste

Nous touchons ici un autre problème, qui est celui de la mauvaise identification du mal pour ce qu’il est.

L’ignorance du 6% / 94% - du mal réel - est un problème, parce que nous fonctionnons en partie d’après un “système de gestion” (et c’est peut-être là aussi un problème, celui soulevé par Ian McGilChrist - Left brain hemisphere <> Right brain hemisphere): régimes politiques, vision du monde, etc, sont autant de structures exigeant des principes directeurs - pour l’individu et le collectif, et donc susceptibles d’être sujets à cette mauvaise identification du mal.

Ce qui se produit techniquement (“psychologiquement” / “intellectuellement”), c’est que les principes directeurs, dits “d’organisation”, entreront en conflit avec la réalité (“déni de réalité”), avec “ce qui est”.

Le résultat en est un ajustement par le bas, entre cette mauvaise organisation et l’appareil psychique (qui va chercher à compenser).

Une stratégie psychologique “de défense” fait organiquement son apparition. Cette dernière est une conséquence naturelle, issue de la psyche des gens normaux sains, alors qu’ils se retrouvent à compenser d’après les ordres du “manager” qui ne sont pas adaptés à ce qui est (comme mentionné plus haut, le rôle du “manager” peut être “un régime politique”, notre propre vision du monde ou toute autre forme de structure organisée d’après un modèle exigeant une “direction”). Une stratégie de défense est davantage un genre de palliatif immédiat censé contrebalancer un conflit psychologique - qui nous l’avons vu, se situe en amont.

Une aliénation commence ici, car la stratégie de défense a pour rôle unique de permettre au sujet de supporter le conflit théorique irréductible auquel il est confronté. La société présente bel et bien 6% de “mal”, mais le principe directeur indique quelque chose d’autre.

La stratégie de défense ne procure pas de solution au problème auquel nous sommes confrontés. Elles sont “vectorisées vers la formation d’un déni (ou désaveu) de la perception de la réalité”. C’est leur rôle. C’est une stratégie d’urgence automatique.

Une aliénation survient ici, et la souffrance apparaît exactement ici, en fin de chaîne, au sein de toutes ces contraintes.

Il est donc à remarquer que la seule possibilité pour le sujet de se sortir de cela sera de se hisser et de “résoudre l’énigme” posée par le principe directeur quel qu’il soit. (Relevons également aussi, dans tout cela, un “conflit avec le pouvoir” alors qu’il nous indique une fausse voie).

Malheureusement, les stratégies de défense deviennent les “objectifs en soi”.

Et… C’est là que les choses se gâtent car C. Dejours emploie un qualificatif qui est apparu chez Lobaczewski:

La stratégie de défense devient érigée en promesse de bonheur.

Avant de parler de cela, voici une dernière caractéristique des stratégies de défense; alors qu’elles deviennent l’objectif, et qu’elles se substituent à un rôle de promesse de bonheur, on en sera aussi faussement amenés à penser que nos souffrances sont dûes à l’affaiblissement de la stratégie de défense, alors que c’est loin d’en être la raison.

Nous pourrions résumer le problème soulevé par l’ignorance des 6% (qui consiste en réalité en la mis-identification du “mal”) de la façon suivante:

• mauvaise organisation

  • apparition d’une stratégie de défense

    • aliénation

      • apparition de souffrance

Le désir de bonheur

A ce stade de l’article, nous disposons également de l’élément suivant:

• la “dynamique de tension”, exprimée en tant que condition humaine, par Rudolf Steiner et relative à la constante “d’exigences contradictoires”

Je vais tenter de l’intégrer au modèle - et cela se fera grâce à une phrase de A. Lobaczewski:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Ponérologie politique”

Puisque la compréhension des facteurs vraiment fonctionnels dépasse le cadre de sa vision naturelle du monde, la personne fait généralement confiance à son intuition et à son désir de bonheur.

Note importante: je ne pense pas, pour ma part, que la recherche du bonheur soit quelque chose de négatif ou de péjoratif, mais une composante saine de l’être humain normal.

En réalité, C. Dejours est un “psy du travail”; le modèle expliqué avant (“stratégies de défense” etc) provient en fait de son analyse du monde du travail.

Sa découverte repose sur le fait qu’il existe un écart irréductible entre l’organisation théorique du travail et l’activité réelle.

Il est impossible de produire une correspondance parfaite, c’est une connaissance acquise. Pourtant, deux scénarios coexistent, de la part du “management”, au regard de cette équation irréductible:

• L’intelligence et le respect de l’être humain produira passera par “des compromis”

• La malhonnêteté par l’imposition à tous prix de méthodes d’organisation ignorant la réalité de “l’écart irréductible”.

Le second scénario, constaté par C. Dejours, est exprimé comme suit:

la survalorisation de la conception et du management, conduit immanquablement à interpréter les échecs du travail ordinaire comme l’expression d’une incompétence, d’un manque de sérieux, d’une insouciance, d’un manque de formation, d’une malveillance, d’une défaillance ou d’une erreur, relevant de l’homme

En résumé, les travailleurs, les employés, soumis à des techniques de “management” malhonnêtes, auront à gérer un paramètre inexistant:

interprétation péjorative des conduites humaines

La faute est mise sur nous-mêmes, sur l’être humain - c’est en réalité loin d’être le cas mais c’est pourtant ce qui se produit.

C’est alors qu’une phrase de A. Lobaczewski a attiré mon attention :

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Ponérologie politique”

Puisque la compréhension des facteurs vraiment fonctionnels dépasse le cadre de sa vision naturelle du monde, la personne fait généralement confiance à son intuition et à son désir de bonheur.

Lobaczewski exprime combien l’ignorance des 6% propulse la personne normale dans une situation particulière. “Elle s’en remet à son désir de bonheur, sans être tout-à-fait au clair, du mal”.

Voici ce que C. Dejours nous dit, alors qu’il qualifie les systèmes de management - honnêtes ou malhonnêtes:

“Nous sommes amenés à considérer un régime politique prétendant amender les obstacles au bonheur”.

Pourtant, nous avons observer que dans le cas ou le principe d’organisation est de type “malhonnête”, il produira “une interprétation péjorative des conduites humaines”.

Ainsi donc, la recherche du bonheur peut devenir sujette à une interprétation péjorative. Si nous nous reposons sur l’idée que le désir de bonheur soit une composante saine de la psyche humaine, nous avons ici un processus susceptible de prétendre le contraire.

<> Déni de réalité?

Le désir de bonheur mérite réflexion.

C. Dejours peut aider avec la phrase suivante:

“Travail, usure mentale - De la psychopathologie à la psychodynamique du travail“

Aussi est-on peut-être en mesure de se pencher sur ce qui fait obstacle non pas au bonheur collectif - notion suspecte s'il en est -, mais sur ce qui constitue un obstacle collectivement éprouvé (...) dans l'accession à un travail plus satisfaisant

Nous observons que le bonheur collectif semble être “quelque chose à éviter”. Substituons le mot “travail” avec “vision du monde”:

Aussi est-on peut-être en mesure de se pencher sur ce qui fait obstacle non pas au bonheur collectif - notion suspecte s'il en est -, mais sur ce qui constitue un obstacle collectivement éprouvé (...) dans l'accession à une vision du monde plus satisfaisante

Considérons A. Lobaczewski:

Puisque la compréhension des facteurs vraiment fonctionnels dépasse le cadre de sa vision naturelle du monde, la personne fait généralement confiance à son intuition et à son désir de bonheur.

La société comporte 6% de psychopathes; ignorés, ils constituent une influence négative active - et principalement alors que nous nous retrouverons en interaction avec ces derniers sans le savoir. Etendre la recherche personnelle du bonheur à la société toute entière reviendra à l’appliquer à ces 6%. Il se peut que la recherche du bonheur soit inapplicable au niveau collectif tant que le 6% restera actif.

Le problème repose sur le fait que les principes d’organisation prétendront toujours “amender les obstacles au bonheur”.

Revenons à C. Dejours, qui exprime:

• le concept d’un “écart irréductible”

• que ce dernier n’est pas adressé correctement

• c’est dans un tel contexte que la souffrance apparaît

Lobaczewski nous livre donc la même chose:

• “la compréhension des facteurs vraiment fonctionnels“ n’est pas au rendez-vous.

• La personne se rabattra vers le mode par défaut - “recherche du bonheur”, dans un contexte du 6%

• tout cela sera probablement générateur de souffrance

Le modèle de C. Dejours semble correspondre, et je suis persuadé que nous pourrions trouver une manipulation d’après “une interprétation péjorative des conduites humaines” quelque part dans le lot de la fréquentation de psychopathologie.

Par ailleurs, relevons qu’il apparaîtra dans l’intérêt des 6% de maintenir les gens normaux dans l’ignorance.

C’est également ici que nous pourrions effectuer un parallèle avec R. Steiner: au regard d’une société gens normaux / psychopathes en roues libres, nous assistons quotidiennement à:

• “contradictions permanentes”

• “état de tension permanent”

Ainsi qu’il l’a été mentionné, parfois, les techniques de gestion des entreprises sont acceptées comme tel en leur version malhonnête - devenant alors “sources de souffrance” - et c’est ce qui semble se produire automatiquement alors que les gens normaux se retrouvent en une société comprenant des “psychopathes essentiels”.

Nous observons alors la phrase “la stratégie de défense devient érigée en promesse de bonheur“ avec beaucoup d’attention... Les gens normaux, initialement à la recherche du bonheur, se retrouvent dans un contexte de psychopathes, au sein duquel ils vont potentiellement substituer ce qui est déjà quelque chose “de seconde main” pour quelque chose de pire encore.

“La stratégie de défense devient érigée en promesse de bonheur.”

car nous avons observé combien les stratégies de défense créent basiquement de l’aliénation puis de la souffrance.

Cela commence à faire beaucoup.

Quatre points additionnels

Pour compléter quelque chose que j’aperçois et dont j’ai essayé de parler, ci-dessus, voici quatre point supplémentaires, probablement redondants en apparence mais qui, à mes yeux, mériteraient quelques lignes.

Il n’est pas facile de rester organisé avec autant de principes psychologiques mais je pense pouvoir maintenir le cap en espérant que le lecteur comprendra!

Premier point

Christophe Dejours revisite des grands fondements tels que “la capacité à infliger la violence à autrui” et, en tant que psy, il explique que parfois, l’être humain s’arroge le droit d’infliger la violence, par exemple “dans des situations l’exigeant”. C’est parfois justifié, bien entendu, mais observons ici combien le terrain est glissant.

Pour être précis, C. Dejours dit:

le problème central est que la violence, le courage d’infliger la violence à autrui ne peut être justifié, au plan éthique, que dans la mesure ou il est investi au profit d’une activité

C’est ce que je rapporte ci-dessus - C. Dejours caractérise le mécanisme durant lequel les gens normaux accepteraient éventuellement le recours à la violence (et c’est lorsque que les résultats seront “mis au profit d’une activité”).

Imaginons - une activité et qui pourrait “bénéficier” d’un recours à la violence. Par exemple, l’activité des gens normaux et qui est “la poursuite du bonheur”. Si nous rencontrions des obstacles à cela, il se peut que nous soyons amenés à employer la violence.

Nous avons observé plus haut que la recherche du bonheur dans un contexte présentant des psychopathes était une entreprise dangereuse, car nous passons à côté du mal, l’identifions ailleurs, et nous nous retrouvons en un état de tension permanente, ballotés par des demandes contradictoires.

Serait-il difficile de susciter notre violence, dans un tel contexte? De manipuler notre bonheur, notre recherche du bonheur?

Nous pourrions imaginer des épisodes sporadiques de tension, et nous poussant à l’emploi de la violence. Je ne juge pas de la justification, ici, par les gens normaux.

Se pourrait-il que, dans un monde totalement ignorant des psychopathies héréditaires… Je veux dire… Quelle serait la représentation basique d’une violence, d’un conflit, au niveau macro, ou encore pour des pays, des associations humaines? Des … guerres?

Se pourrait-il que les guerres aient toutes été produites artificiellement, par des systèmes de gestion ayant opté pour la “voie malhonnête”???

Christophe Dejours nous exprime que le choix entre “gestion honnête” et “gestion malhonnête” a été enterré il y a fort longtemps; son livre décrit la chose suivante:

Le problème posé est donc celui de l’enrôlement des braves gens dans le mal, comme système de gestion, comme principe organisationnel.

familiariser la société civile avec le malheur, à domestiquer les réactions d’indignation et à favoriser la résignation, voire à constituer une préparation psychologique à subir le malheur

Notre hypothèse consiste en ceci que, depuis 1980, [...], ce serait toute la société qui se serait transformée qualitativement, au point de ne plus avoir les mêmes réactions que naguère. Pour être plus précis, nous visons, sous cette formule, essentiellement une évolution des réactions sociales à la souffrance, au malheur et malheur et à l’injustice. Évolution qui se caractériserait par l’atténuation des réactions d’indignation, de colère et de mobilisation collective pour l'action en faveur de la solidarité et de la justice, cependant que se développeraient des réactions de réserve, d'hésitation et de perplexité, voire de franche indifférence, ainsi que de tolérance collective à l'inaction et de résignation face à l'injustice et à la souffrance d'autrui. Cette évolution, aucun analyste ne la conteste. Beaucoup s'en désespèrent. Seules les explications de ce phénomène divergent. On comprend mal comment une mutation politique de cette ampleur a pu se produire en si peu de temps.

Toutes ces souffrances et ces injustices infligées à autrui, on en connaît l’existence ordinaire dans toutes les sociétés, y compris démocratiques. Nous qualifions ici de « mal » toutes ces conduites lorsqu’elles sont :

— érigées en système de direction, de commandement, d'organisation ou de management, c’est-à-dire lorsqu’elles supposent l’implication de tous aux titres de victimes, de bourreaux, ou de victimes et de bourreaux alternativement ou simultanément.

L'investigation que nous proposons ... ouvre à nouveau la question ... de l'aliénation ... c’est-à-dire la tolérance graduée ... à une organisation ... qui va à l’encontre de leurs désirs, de leurs besoins et de leur santé.

Aliénation au sens psychiatrique aussi, de remplacement de la volonté propre du Sujet ... Ici il s’agit d’une aliénation qui passe par les idéologies défensives ... finit par confondre avec ses désirs propres l’injonction organisationnelle qui a pris la place de son libre arbitre.

Ce constat est sévère et montre à quel point il est important d'en savoir plus sur les psychopathies héréditaires. L’idée du premier point est de souligner “le mal en tant que principe de gestion” et de donner une explication hypothétique aux guerres, alors qu’elles surviendraient dans un contexte d’ignorance des psychopathes.

Second point

Mon idée principale fut de mettre en parallèle le fait qu’une mauvaise gestion produit un déni de la réalité, puis une aliénation puis de la souffrance - avec les textes de C. Dejours puis de pouvoir mettre cette idée en rapport avec la phrase de Lobaczewski sur “la recherche du bonheur”.

Lobaczewski exprime un modèle basique menant au totalitarisme, dans son livre; ces extraits font beaucoup de sens au regard de ce qui a été dit:

Andrew M. LOBACZEWSKI - “Ponérologie politique”

l’étape initiale est la déformation du contenu idéologique

infiltrations par des éléments matériels étrangers qui (…) privent du soutien de la confiance et de la compréhension de la nature humaine

une pression est exercée sur la partie la plus normale

Je pense que ces phrases font beaucoup de sens au regard de “l’idéologie du management”, optant tantôt pour une version malhonnête, tantôt pour une version respectueuse de l’être humain. Ces phrases, de A. Lobaczewski, ont une portée très générique. Nous pouvons les relier à ce qu’a expliqué C. Dejours, à bien des endroits.

Nous observons à nouveau un regard sur des manipulations des gens normaux et de l’esprit des gens normaux. Dans un contexte de 6%, “tout se vaut”, pour les gens normaux - et leur recherche du bonheur en est ainsi affectée négativement. Les gens en sont ainsi déviés sans s’en apercevoir.

Dans son livre "Le Napoléon de Notting Hill", Gilberth Keith Chesterton livre une observation judicieuse sur les gens normaux:

les gens écoutent avec beaucoup d'attention et de respect tout ce que les gens entendus ont à leur dire

l'humanité dans son ensemble est mystique et frivole, elle se plaît aux changements

Il exprime une situation de paroxysme dans cette confiance aveugle en des "principes directeurs":

la situation était devenue beaucoup plus complexe qu'elle ne l'avait jamais été. la raison en était qu'il y avait tant de prophètes et de prophéties qu'il était difficile d'éluder toutes les conséquences qu'ils avaient imaginées, dans leur ingénuité.

Tous ces hommes éminents prophétisaient, avec toutes sortes d'ingénuités différentes, ce qui allait bientôt se passer, et ils s'y prenaient au fond tous de la même manière, puisqu'ils choisissaient chacun quelque courant contemporain pour le prolonger aussi loin que leur permettait l'imagination. Telle était, selon eux, la manière la plus sûre d'anticiper l'avenir.

Il paraissait très ardu de faire quoi que ce soit sans confirmer l'une de leurs prédictions

On cessa de voir certaines choses dont on avait cessé de parler. D'autres choses qui arrivaient rarement d'arrivèrent plus du tout.

Et il n'y avait plus la moindre raison pour que l'on cessât de faire aujourd'hui ce que l'on avait fait hier.

Si j’observais quelles sont les priorités véhiculées au sein de la société, je devrais considérer “le réchauffement climatique” et “l’antisémitisme” - à en croire certains.

Peut-être qu’il est bon, à un moment-donné, de prendre du recul et de considérer que la norme des gens normaux.

J’espère que le lecteur comprendra combien la solution est parfois de se refocaliser sur la normalité. Peut-être est-il bon, dans un premier temps, de rester éloigné de l’excentricité, et de rester concentrés sur la normalité - quitte à ce que cette dernière apparaisse comme ennuyeuse.

Permettez-moi de suggérer au lecteur de faire bien attention aux personnes qui prétendent que des gestes simples, issus du coeur - comme aller faire un bouquet de fleurs, ou une promenade alors que le soleil se lève - pourraient être sujets à la critique, ou même devenir sujets à la critique.

G.K. Chesterton livre une réflexion intéressante à ce sujet, dans son livre “le club des fous”:

… j'ai connu beaucoup de gens qui avaient décidé d'être originaux. Une école d'art fourmille de ces gens-là

… ils vont avec le courant. Ils font ces choses parce que ça se fait ; parce qu'on agit ainsi dans leur monde bohémien. Le mépris des conventions est leur convention. Cela m'est égal à moi ; je les trouve très amusants ; mais cela ne veut pas dire que je sois incapable de reconnaître une personnalité réelle et l'indépendance quand je les rencontre. Tout cela est fluide, sans forme ;

Ainsi, je pense qu’il y a beaucoup à observer en les symptômes de l’influence non-détectée des 6%, en le fait qu’elle suscite en réalité le mépris des conventions - en tant que convention, par exemple.

Troisième point

Afin de bien illustrer l’idée ci-dessus, je suppose que nous ayions été comme apâtés par une vision du monde déviante - et raillant la normalité et toute sa simplicité.

Le processus est disséquable et il existe une étape supplémentaire importante à comprendre pour être au clair en ce qui concerne l’influence d’un psychopathe sur une personne normale.

Lorsqu’un psychopathe interagit avec une personne normale, il peut la convaincre que sa vision du monde est préférable; la pluspart du temps, en raillant la normalité, en faisant apparaître cette dernière comme de la naïveté, “dans un monde ou c’est la loi de la jungle”. Il est difficile de se protéger d’une telle influence. Pourtant, c’est bel et bien quelque chose d’issu d’un esprit déviant - et qui sera à considérer, par la suite, en tant que “facteur pathologique”.

A. Lobaczewski:

la contamination par et l’activation de facteurs pathologiques

L’influence des psychopathes sur les gens normaux se fait, ultimement, au moyen d’un genre “d’agent”.

Nous avons, lors de cet article, déjà observé qu’il nous faudrait distinguer les personnes normales du 6%.

Puis, il faut ensuite comprendre que ces 6% expriment des pensées de déviances, au regard des gens normaux (psychopathologie, le mal, la norme des gens normaux).

Pour une compréhension correcte, il nous faut alors à nouveau opérer à une dernière distinction - celles des facteurs pathologiques, qui seront précisément le mal se développant en une personne normale. Le psychopathe est déjà loin, et il s’agit de leur “agent” sur lequel il nous faudra concentrer nos efforts de guérison.

Ces facteurs pathologiques représentent une forme d’aliénation pour les gens normaux.

Une personne normale sujette à l’influence d’un facteur pathologique issu d’un psychopathe sera en proie à un genre de névrose; alors que vous observez des pairs devenus cinglés en apparence, ou en perte de perception des choses, c’est souvent parce qu’un facteur pathologique non-traité s’est frayé un passage.

La normalité des gens de base permet d’apercevoir “quelque chose qui ne va pas”.

L’esprit humain est une bonne machine, et qui compense les traumatismes. Lorsqu’une personne normale subit un choc, l’esprit compensera comme il le pourra. Parfois, des gens perdent la tête après des accidents. Parfois, seulement une partie de leurs facultés. le raisonnement, etc, “mécanismes de compensation”, etc etc.

Ici, c’est à peu-près la même chose - et un facteur pathologique force la personne à constamment devoir s’adapter à une nature déviante. La nature déviante semble être l’influence du facteur - mais ce dernier dépend de quel type de psychopathe il provient, et déterminera l’influence que la personne normale subit. Il y a les schizoïdes, qui tendent à voir l’espèce humaine comme faillible et faible, il y a les psychopathes essentiels qui voient les gens normaux comme une naïve “source de butin”. Etc.

Le « signalement de vertu » pourrait en fait être un facteur pathologique - si l'on pense au masque de santé mentale que les psychopathes essentiels utilisent. Ceux-ci auraient influencé des personnes normales en leur suggérant d’adopter leur faux « mécanisme de signalisation » qui dissimule leur moi déviant - « hé, je suis sain d'esprit ! », « hé, faites-moi confiance ! ».

Il y a donc beaucoup de facteurs qui s’entremêlent chez une personne normale devenant “folle”, “inconstante”, etc. Il est bon de rester prudent en ce qui concerne le “diagnostic”.

Des attitudes impropres de la part des gens sont souvent mal interprétées.

La présence des facteurs pathologiques chez des personnes normales devraient être différenciées d'autres affections (par exemple).

La moralisation doit, par exemple, être restreinte:

• aux gens normaux

• aux facteurs non-pathologiques

Elle n'est pas applicable aux facteurs psychopathologiques eux-mêmes quand ils sont présents chez une personne normale.

Elle ne sera pas applicable du tout au 6%.

Quatrième point

Ce dernier point est un ajout de dernière minute; observons la citation suivante:

Christophe DEJOURS – « Souffrance en France »

La normalité est interprétée comme le résultat d’un compromis entre la souffrance et la lutte (individuelle et collective) contre la souffrance dans le travail. La normalité n'implique donc pas l’absence de souffrance, bien au contraire. On peut soutenir un concept de « normalité souffrante », la normalité apparaissant alors non pas comme l’effet passif d’un conditionnement social, d’un quelconque conformisme ou d’une «normalisation » péjorative et méprisable, obtenue par « intériorisation » de la domination sociale, mais comme un résultat conquis de haute lutte contre la déstabilisation psychique provoquée par les contraintes de travail.

Si nous nous référons à Lobaczewski, les gens normaux “constituent la norme”, “la loi naturelle est de leur côté” - et “ce sont eux qui devraient avoir le pouvoir” et “donner le ton”. Nous observons donc la normalité des gens normaux comme le centre de gravité des affaires de la planète.

Pourtant, ce n’est pas ainsi; 6% de déviants mentaux donnent trop souvent le ton, volent toutes les positions de pouvoir, etc, jusqu’au point où nos échecs deviennent interprétés comme des “défaillances humaines”; il a été fait mention “d’interprétation péjorative des conduites humaines”.

C’est tout bonnement inacceptable et représente un pas trop éloigné de la réalité; c’est aller trop loin dans le cynisme, quelque part, car personne n’est parfait et on impute à la norme - le fait d’être la norme! Quelque part, c’est un peu cela dont il s’agit ici.

Observons la citation ci-dessus:

La normalité est interprétée comme le résultat d’un compromis (…)

Ainsi donc, à cause de l’influence de déviants, la normalité deviendrait accessible, non pas à travers sa nature intrinsèque, alors que nous sommes normaux, mais, “à travers des compromis”. Cela n’est pas correct et est inacceptable en termes de logique.

Poursuivons:

la normalité apparaissant alors non pas comme l’effet passif d’un conditionnement social, d’un quelconque conformisme ou d’une «normalisation »

Je pense que cette phrase est plus juste, en le sens qu’elle décrit ce qui se produit en réalité: la norme des gens normaux ne sera jamais affectée en tant que tel. En réalité, c’est l’idée que l’on se fait de la norme qui est attaquée, puis l’accès à la norme.

Cela indique que la norme des gens ordinaires est quelque chose d’intangible; toute tentative de redéfinir cette norme est vouée à l’échec car elle existe en tant que tel. Il se pourrait que les humains disparaissent du jour au lendemain - mais leur norme est et reste quelque chose de très précis et de défini.

Une autre norme, quelle qu’elle soit, ne pourra pas remplacer le fait que les humains ont été appelés à peupler la Planète, avec tout un “set” de lois, de traits ainsi qu’une psyche spécifique. Il n’est pas possible de remettre cela en question - et toute digression à ce sujet représente une digression de “conformité à la norme humaine”.

Il y a beaucoup de gens qui essaient de redéfinir des grands concepts et qui sont en fait des standards de la norme. La réalité biologique, par exemple. Nous observons que même si des gens sont séduits par ces idées, la réalité biologique ne cessera pas d’être ce qu’elle est.

Je pense qu’il y a donc un genre de “gap” qui se situe à ce niveau du “raisonnement logique”, et que la vérité cesse d’être et que la logique intellectuelle devient sujette à un principe fallacieux faisant la promotion de l’idée que la norme puisse être autre chose - alors qu’en fait cet effort malhonnête vise l’accès à la norme.

Cela signifie que tout ce que ces esprits déviants nous poussent à faire se situe au niveau de notre mécanisme intellectuel d’identification de la norme des gens ordinaires.

Il s’agit donc de garder un oeil sur la conformisation à des valeurs dites “anormales” - ainsi que sur les personnes en faisant la promotion.

Christophe DEJOURS livre la réflexion suivante, alors qu’il parle de l’environnement du travail au sein duquel des méthodes de management malhonnêtes ont été mises en place:

“L’expérience du réel [dans le travail] se traduit par la confrontation à l’échec”

Il devient bien évident qu’à force de confronter les gens normaux à l’échec pourra les faire accepter que ces échecs découlent d’une défaillance humaine… Simuler des échecs permanents reviendra donc à inculquer aux gens normaux “une interprétation péjorative des conduites humaines”.

Par ailleurs, la “confrontation permanente à l’échec” ne fait pas vraiment partie de la norme des gens ordinaires. Nous observons ici quelque chose d’étranger aux gens normaux - et qui pourtant est très répandu.

Cela entre donc en contradiction avec le fait que “Dieu” ait décidé que c’était l’homme normal qui régnerait sur la Terre. Nous pourrions retourner cela tant que nous le voudrions, il existe ici un irrespect de la condition naturelle; le microcosme de la Terre ne s’arrête pas à l’atmosphère mais est inclus dans un système plus vaste.

Pierre LESCAUDRON a notamment exprimé que la planète disposait d’un système de nettoyage qui se mettait en branle alors qu’un degré trop élevé de corruption serait présent (<> comètes, “la connexion anthropocosmique”).

Conclusion

"La source du bonheur est de n'être heureux de rien en particulier.

Lorsque des gens comme Ian McGilChrist nous disent qu'il faut être moins gaucher pour être « pleinement », nous voyons que nous avons été amenés à rechercher le bonheur dans le cadre d'un très mauvais plan manipulateur inconscient. Le bonheur de base était notre devoir et notre objectif. Il a été identifié par des individus négatifs, des déviants, et ils ont déformé notre caractéristique naturelle de base. Ce n'est pas bon. Nous voyons que ce qui était autrefois bien intégré comme quelque chose de normal, quelque chose de naturel que l'on pouvait trouver dans n'importe quoi, est devenu la cible de « pré-requis ».

« Pour être heureux, il faut ... » « X, puis Y ou Z ». Il semble que ce ne soit pas ainsi que cela fonctionne.

Mon article va plus loin dans l'analyse de certains mécanismes, mais il s'agit des principes basiques / fondamentaux (comme dans “qu’est-ce qu’il y a tout en amont“).

L'une de ces bases est ce « 6% » et une autre est « la poursuite du bonheur », relative aux gens normaux, un concept tangible. J'espère que j'ai pu montrer qu'une forme de conflit apparaissait. Si les 94% sont la norme, on peut trouver un début de réponse pour définir quelques limites.

Alors que les fondamentaux ne sont pas très bien enseignés, nous voyons des principes organisateurs erronés qui créent une situation palliative pour l'esprit des gens normaux. Ne subsiste qu’un genre de “loi du plus fort”, de “loi de la jungle” donc d’un principe basique de “domination sur les autres” en tant que norme agréée. C’est tout simplement inadmissible.

Un tel processus peut être tantôt organique, tantôt imposé artificiellement.

Lobaczewski exprime qu’au long d’un tel processus, une constante existe - soit la présence des psychopathes attendant patiemment que le niveau de psychopathologie ait atteint un seuil leur permettant de s’épanouir; le résultat en est principalement une déviance du mouvement initial vers le totalitarisme.

Pour cet article, je me suis basé sur le modèle théorique de Christophe Dejours - que le lecteur pourra trouver ici - que j’ai essayé de mettre en rapport avec ce que disait A. Lobaczewski (et R. Steiner).

Je tiens à le préciser: alors que de nombreux systèmes de gestion sont de la version “malhonnête”, la raison de cet état de fait est à rechercher en amont - au niveau des 6%. C’est là que se situe l’origine du problème; une révolution prolétaire visant à détruire l’élite managériale s’attaquerait en réalité à un échelon intermédiaire.

Merci de votre lecture!