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Subject: Twilight of the Psychopaths
Twilight of the Psychopaths
by Dr. Kevin Barrett
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/01/02/02073.html
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being
run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as
insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.” – John Lennon,
before his murder by CIA mind-control subject Mark David Chapman
When Gandhi was asked his opinion of Western civilization he said it would be a
good idea. But that oft-cited quote, is misleading, assuming as it does that
civilization is an unmitigated blessing.
Civilized people, we are told, live peacefully and cooperatively with their
fellows, sharing the necessary labour in order to obtain the leisure to develop
arts and sciences. And while that would be a good idea, it is not a good
description of what has been going on in the so-called advanced cultures during
the past 8,000 years.
Civilization, as we know it, is largely the creation of psychopaths. All
civilizations, our own included, have been based on slavery and “warfare.”
Incidentally, the latter term is a euphemism for mass murder.
The prevailing recipe for civilization is simple:
1) Use lies and brainwashing to create an army of controlled, systematic mass
murderers;
2) Use that army to enslave large numbers of people (i.e. seize control of
their labour power and its fruits);
3) Use that slave labour power to improve the brainwashing process (by using
the economic surplus to employ scribes, priests, and PR men). Then go back to
step one and repeat the process.
Psychopaths have played a disproportionate role in the development of
civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie, kill, injure, and generally
inflict great suffering on other humans without feeling any remorse. The
inventor of civilization — the first tribal chieftain who successfully
brainwashed an army of controlled mass murderers—was almost certainly a genetic
psychopath. Since that momentous discovery, psychopaths have enjoyed a
significant advantage over non-psychopaths in the struggle for power in
civilizational hierarchies — especially military hierarchies.
Military institutions are tailor-made for psychopathic killers. The 5% or so of
human males who feel no remorse about killing their fellow human beings make
the best soldiers. And the 95% who are extremely reluctant to kill make
terrible soldiers — unless they are brainwashed with highly sophisticated
modern techniques that turn them (temporarily it is hoped) into functional
psychopaths.
In On Killing, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has re-written military history, to
highlight what other histories hide: The fact that military science is less
about strategy and technology, than about overcoming the instinctive human
reluctance to kill members of our own species. The true “Revolution in Military
Affairs” was not Donald Rumsfeld’s move to high-tech in 2001, but Brigadier
Gen. S.L.A. Marshall’s discovery in the 1940s that only 15-20% of World War II
soldiers along the line of fire would use their weapons: “Those (80-85%) who
did not fire did not run or hide (in many cases they were willing to risk great
danger to rescue comrades, get ammunition, or run messages), but they simply
would not fire their weapons at the enemy, even when faced with repeated waves
of banzai charges” (Grossman, p. 4).
Marshall’s discovery and subsequent research, proved that in all previous wars,
a tiny minority of soldiers — the 5% who are natural-born psychopaths, and
perhaps a few temporarily-insane imitators—did almost all the killing. Normal
men just went through the motions and, if at all possible, refused to take the
life of an enemy soldier, even if that meant giving up their own. The
implication: Wars are ritualized mass murders by psychopaths of
non-psychopaths. (This cannot be good for humanity’s genetic endowment!)
Marshall’s work, brought a Copernican revolution to military science. In the
past, everyone believed that the soldier willing to kill for his country was
the (heroic) norm, while one who refused to fight was a (cowardly) aberration.
The truth, as it turned out, was that the normative soldier hailed from the
psychopathic five percent. The sane majority, would rather die than fight.
The implication, too frightening for even the likes of Marshall and Grossman to
fully digest, was that the norms for soldiers’ behaviour in battle had been set
by psychopaths. That meant that psychopaths were in control of the military as
an institution. Worse, it meant that psychopaths were in control of society’s
perception of military affairs. Evidently, psychopaths exercised an enormous
amount of power in seemingly sane, normal society.
How could that be? In Political Ponerology, Andrzej Lobaczewski explains that
clinical psychopaths enjoy advantages even in non-violent competitions to climb
the ranks of social hierarchies. Because they can lie without remorse (and
without the telltale physiological stress that is measured by lie detector
tests) psychopaths can always say whatever is necessary to get what they want.
In court, for example, psychopaths can tell extreme bald-faced lies in a
plausible manner, while their sane opponents are handicapped by an emotional
predisposition to remain within hailing distance of the truth. Too often, the
judge or jury imagines that the truth must be somewhere in the middle, and then
issues decisions that benefit the psychopath. As with judges and juries, so too
with those charged with decisions concerning who to promote and who not to
promote in corporate, military and governmental hierarchies. The result is that
all hierarchies inevitably become top-heavy with psychopaths.
So-called conspiracy theorists, some of whom deserve the pejorative connotation
of that much-abused term, often imagine that secret societies of Jews, Jesuits,
bankers, communists, Bilderbergers, Muslim extremists, papists, and so on, are
secretly controlling history, doing dastardly deeds, and/or threatening to take
over the world. As a leading “conspiracy theorist” according to Wikipedia, I
feel eminently qualified to offer an alternative conspiracy theory which, like
the alternative conspiracy theory of 9/11, is both simpler and more accurate
than the prevailing wisdom: The only conspiracy that matters is the conspiracy
of the psychopaths against the rest of us.
Behind the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the actual insanity of
psychopaths fighting to preserve their disproportionate power. And as that
power grows ever-more-threatened, the psychopaths grow ever-more-desperate. We
are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld—the criminal syndicate or
overlapping set of syndicates that lurks above ordinary society and law just as
the underworld lurks below it. In 9/11 and the 9/11 wars, we are seeing the
final desperate power-grab or “endgame” (Alex Jones) of brutal, cunning gangs
of CIA drug-runners and President-killers; money-laundering international
bankers and their hit-men, economic and otherwise; corrupt military contractors
and gung-ho generals; corporate predators and their political enablers;
brainwashers and mind-rapists euphemistically known as psy-ops experts and PR
specialists—in short, the whole sick crew of certifiable psychopaths running
our so-called civilization. And they are running scared. It was their terror of
losing control that they projected onto the rest of us by blowing up the Twin
Towers and inciting temporary psychopathic terror-rage in the American public.
Why does the pathocracy fear it is losing control? Because it is threatened by
the spread of knowledge. The greatest fear of any psychopath is of being found
out. As George H. W. Bush said to journalist Sarah McClendon, December 1992,
“If the people knew what we had done, they would chase us down the street and
lynch us.” Given that Bush is reported to have participated in parties where
child prostitutes were sodomized and otherwise abused, among his many other
crimes, his statement to McClendon should be taken seriously.
Psychopaths go through life knowing that they are completely different from
other people. They quickly learn to hide their lack of empathy, while carefully
studying others’ emotions so as to mimic normalcy while cold-bloodedly
manipulating the normals.
Today, thanks to new information technologies, we are on the brink of unmasking
the psychopaths and building a civilization of, by and for the normal human
being — a civilization without war, a civilization based on truth, a
civilization in which the saintly few rather than the diabolical few would
gravitate to positions of power. We already have the knowledge necessary to
diagnose psychopathic personalities and keep them out of power. We have the
knowledge necessary to dismantle the institutions in which psychopaths
especially flourish — militaries, intelligence agencies, large corporations,
and secret societies. We simply need to disseminate this knowledge, and the
will to use it, as widely as possible.
Above all, we need to inform the public about how psychopaths co-opt and
corrupt normal human beings. One way they do this, is by manipulating shame and
denial — emotions foreign to psychopaths but common and easily-induced among
normals.
Consider how gangs and secret societies (psychopaths’ guilds in disguise)
recruit new members. Some criminal gangs and satanist covens demand that
candidates for admission commit a murder to “earn their stripes.” Skull and
Bones, the Yale-based secret society that supplies the CIA with drug-runners,
mind-rapists, child abusers and professional killers, requires neophytes to lie
naked in a coffin and masturbate in front of older members while reciting the
candidate’s entire sexual history. By forcing the neophyte to engage in
ritualized behaviour that would be horrendously shameful in normal society, the
psychopaths’ guild destroys the candidate’s normal personality, assuming he had
one in the first place, and turns the individual into a co-opted, corrupt,
degraded shadow of his former self — a manufactured psychopath or psychopath’s
apprentice.
This manipulation of shame has the added benefit of making psychopathic
organizations effectively invisible to normal society. Despite easily available
media reports, American voters in 2004 simply refused to see that the two
major-party presidential candidates had lain naked in a coffin masturbating in
front of older Bonesmen in order to gain admission to Skull and Bones and thus
become members of the criminal overworld. Likewise, many Americans have long
refused to see that hawkish elements of the overworld, operating through the
CIA, had obviously been the murderers of JFK, MLK, RFK, JFK Jr., Malcolm X,
ChÈ, AllendÈ, Wellstone, Lumumba, Aguilera, Diem, and countless other
relatively non-psychopathic leaders. They refuse to see the continuing murders
of millions of people around the world in what amounts to an American
holocaust. They refuse to see the evidence that the psychopaths’ guilds running
America’s most powerful institutions use the most horrific forms of sexualized
abuse imaginable to induce multiple-personality-disorder in child victims, then
use the resulting mind-control slaves as disposable drug-runners, prostitutes,
Manchurian candidates, and even diplomatic envoys. And of course they refuse to
see that 9/11 was a transparently obvious inside job, and that their own
psychopath-dominated military-intelligence apparatus is behind almost every
major terrorist outrage of recent decades.
All of this psychopathic behaviour at the top of the social hierarchy is simply
too shameful for ordinary people to see, so they avert their gaze, just as
wives of husbands who are sexually abusing their children sometimes refuse to
see what is happening in plain view. If deep, deep denial were a river in
Egypt, American citizens’ wilful blindness would be more like the Marianas
Trench.
But thanks to the power of the internet, people everywhere are waking up. The
only obvious non-psychopath among Republican presidential candidates, Ron Paul,
also happens to be the only candidate in either party with significant
grassroots support.
If “love” is embedded in the Revolution Ron Paul heralds, that is because Dr.
Paul — a kindly, soft-spoken physician who has delivered more than 4,000 babies
— implicitly recognizes that government is the invention and tool of
psychopaths, and therefore must be strictly limited in scope and subjected to a
rigorous system of checks and balances, lest the psychopath’s tools, fear and
hatred, replace love as the glue that binds society together.
The decline in militarism since World War II in advanced countries, the spread
of literacy and communications technology, and the people’s growing demands for
a better life, together represent a gathering force that terrifies the
pathocracy, (those alternately competing-then-cooperating gangs of psychopaths
who have ruled through lies, fear and intimidation since the dawn of so-called
civilization).
Since nuclear weapons have made war obsolete, the pathocracy is terrified that
its favourite social control mechanism — ritualized mass slaughter — is
increasingly unavailable. And if war was the great human tragedy, the
pathocrats’ pathetic attempt at a war-substitute — the transparently phoney
“war on terror” — is repeating it as sheerest farce.
Truly, we are witnessing the twilight of the psychopaths. Whether in their
death throes they succeed in pulling down the curtain of eternal night on all
of us, or whether we resist them and survive to see the dawn of a civilization
worthy of the name, is the great decision in which all of us others, however
humbly, are now participating.
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