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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
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,
Che, Allende, 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 phony “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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