Beware
The Psychopath, My Son: Civilizations Built On Slavery And
Mass Murder
Writers Articles And Opinions
17 December 2009
By Clinton Callahan
The following is largely extracted from two
articles:Twilight of the Psychopaths, by Dr. Kevin
Barrett and The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade by
Silvia Cattori. Both articles are recommended. Both
articles reference the book Political Ponerology: A
science on the nature of evil adjusted for political
purposes, by Andrzej Lobaczewski.
Cattori's article is longer and includes an interview
with the book's editors, Laura Knight-Jadczyk and
Henry See. I make the effort to share this information
because it gives me, at last, a plausible answer to a
long-unanswered question: Why, no matter how much
intelligent goodwill exists in the world, is there so
much war, suffering and injustice? It doesn't seem to
matter what creative plan, ideology, religion, or
philosophy great minds come up with, nothing seems to
improve our lot. Since the dawn of civilization, this
pattern repeats itself over and over again. The answer
is that civilization, as we know it, is largely the
creation of psychopaths.
All civilizations, our own included, have been built
on slavery and mass murder. Psychopaths have played a
disproportionate role in the development of
civilization, because they are hard-wired to lie,
kill, cheat, steal, torture, manipulate, and generally
inflict great suffering on other humans without
feeling any remorse, in order to establish their own
sense of security through domination. 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. Behind
the apparent insanity of contemporary history, is the
actual insanity of psychopaths fighting to preserve
their disproportionate power. And as their power grows
ever-more-threatene d, the psychopaths grow
ever-more-desperate .
We are witnessing the apotheosis of the overworld —
the overlapping criminal syndicates that lurk above
ordinary society and law just as the underworld lurks
below it. During the past fifty years, psychopaths
have gained almost absolute control of all the
branches of government. You can notice this if you
observe carefully that no matter what illegal thing a
modern politician does, no one will really take him to
task. All of the so called scandals that have come up,
any one of which would have taken down an authentic
administration, are just farces played out for the
public, to distract them, to make them think that the
democracy is still working. One of the main factors to
consider in terms of how a society can be taken over
by a group of pathological deviants is that the
psychopaths' only limitation is the participation of
susceptible individuals within that given society.
Lobaczewski gives an average figure for the most
active deviants of approximately 6% of a given
population. (1% essential psychopaths and up to 5%
other psychopathies and characteropathies. ) The
essential psychopath is at the center of the web. The
others form the first tier of the psychopath's control
system. The next tier of such a system is composed of
individuals who were born normal, but are either
already warped by long-term exposure to psychopathic
material via familial or social influences, or who,
through psychic weakness have chosen to meet the
demands of psychopathy for their own selfish ends.
Numerically, according to Lobaczewski, this group is
about 12% of a given population under normal
conditions. So approximately 18% of any given
population is active in the creation and imposition of
a Pathocracy. The 6% group constitutes the Pathocratic
nobility and the 12% group forms the new bourgeoisie,
whose economic situation is the most advantageous.
When you understand the true nature of psychopathic
influence, that it is conscienceless, emotionless,
selfish, cold and calculating, and devoid of any moral
or ethical standards, you are horrified, but at the
same time everything suddenly begins to makes sense.
Our society is ever more soulless because the people
who lead it and who set the example are soulless —
they literally have no conscience. In his book
Political Ponerology, Andrej 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. Since
psychopaths have no limitations on what they can or
will do to get to the top, the ones in charge are
generally pathological. It is not power that corrupts,
it is that corrupt individuals seek power. How can we
distinguish between psychopaths and healthy people?
What is the portrait of a true psychopath? Such a
dangerous question has almost never been successfully
asked. The reason is because we mistakenly confuse
healthy for normal. Human psychological diversity is
the health of our race. There is no normal because
healthy humans continuously evolve beyond all
normalizing standards. The terrorism of searching
through hierarchies for anyone deviating from normal
is no different from witch hunts or Inquisitions. You
must remember that hierarchies thrive on such low
dramas, torturing victims until they confess to evil
beliefs. Not so long ago the church and state
ongoingly acquired significant income and property
through witch hunts and Inquisitions. This continued
for over two hundred and fifty years. Ten generations
of Europeans understood pogrom as normal life. Let us
not return to that nightmare. Testing for normal is
guaranteed to backfire in our face. There is no
normal. But there is conscience. We have very little
empirical evidence to support the idea that true
psychopathy is the result of an abused childhood, and
much empirical evidence to support that it is genetic.
The neurobiological model offers us the greatest hope
of being able to identify even the most devious
psychopath. Other recent studies lead to similar
results and conclusions: that psychopaths have great
difficulty processing verbal and nonverbal affective
(emotional) material, that they tend to confuse the
emotional significance of events, and most
importantly, that these deficits show up in brain
scans! A missing internal connection between the
feeling heart and the thinking brain is detectable.
Psychopaths are incapable of authentic deep emotions.
In fact, when Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who
spent his career studying psychopathy, did brain scans
on psychopaths while showing them two sets of words,
one set of neutral words with no emotional
associations and a second set with emotionally charged
words, while different areas of the brain lit up in
the non-psychopathic control group, in the
psychopaths, both sets were processed in the same area
of the brain, the area that deals with language. They
did not have an emotional reaction until they
intellectually concluded that it would be better if
they had one, and then they whipped up an emotional
response just for show. The simplest, clearest and
truest portrait of the psychopath is given in the
titles of three seminal works on the subject: Without
Conscience by Robert Hare, The Mask of Sanity by
Hervey Cleckley, and Snakes in Suits by Robert Hare
and Paul Babiak.
A psychopath is exactly that: conscienceless. The most
important thing to remember is that this lack of
conscience is hidden from view behind a mask of
normality that is often so convincing that even
experts are deceived. As a result, psychopaths become
the Snakes in Suits that control our world.
Psychopaths lack a sense of remorse or empathy with
others. They can be extremely charming and are experts
at using talk to charm and hypnotize their prey. They
are also irresponsible. Nothing is ever their fault;
someone else or the world at large is always to blame
for all of their problems or their mistakes. Martha
Stout, in her book The Sociopath Next Door, identifies
what she calls the pity ploy. Psychopaths use pity to
manipulate. They convince you to give them one more
chance, and to not tell anyone about what they have
done. So another trait — and a very important one — is
their ability to control the flow of information. They
also seem to have little real conception of past or
future, living entirely for their immediate needs and
desires.
Because of the barren quality of their inner life,
they are often seeking new thrills, anything from
feeling the power of manipulating others to engaging
in illegal activities simply for the rush of
adrenaline. Another trait of the psychopath is what
Lobaczewski calls their special psychological
knowledge of normal people. They have studied us. They
know us better than we know ourselves. They are
experts in knowing how to push our buttons, to use our
emotions against us. But beyond that, they even seem
to have some sort of hypnotic power over us. When we
begin to get caught up in the web of the psychopath,
our ability to think deteriorates, gets muddied. They
seem to cast some sort of spell over us. It is only
later when we are no longer in their presence, out of
their spell, that the clarity of thought returns and
we find ourselves wondering how it was that we were
unable to respond or counter what they were doing.
Psychopaths learn to recognize each other in a crowd
as early as childhood, and they develop an awareness
of the existence of other individuals similar to
themselves. They also become conscious of being of a
different world from the majority of other people
surrounding them.
They view us from a certain distance. Think about the
ramifications of this statement: Psychopaths are, to
some extent, self-aware as a group even in childhood!
Recognizing their fundamental difference from the rest
of humanity, their allegiance would be to others of
their kind, that is, to other psychopaths. Their own
twisted sense of honor compels them to cheat and
revile non-psychopaths and their values. In
contradiction to the ideals of normal people,
psychopaths feel breaking promises and agreements is
normal behavior. Not only do they covet possessions
and power and feel they have the right to them just
because they exist and can take them, but they gain
special pleasure in usurping and taking from others;
what they can plagiarize, swindle, and extort are
fruits far sweeter than those they can earn through
honest labor. They also learn very early how their
personalities can have traumatizing effects on the
personalities of non-psychopaths, and how to take
advantage of this root of terror for purposes of
achieving their goals.
So now, imagine how human beings who are totally in
the dark about the presence of psychopaths can be
easily deceived and manipulated by these individuals,
gaining power in different countries, pretending to be
loyal to the local populations while at the same time
playing up obvious and easily discernible physical
differences between groups (such as race, skin color,
religion, etc). Psychologically normal humans would be
set against one another on the basis of unimportant
differences (think of Rwanda 1994, think of Israelis
and Palestinians) while the deviants in power, with a
fundamental difference from the rest of us, a lack of
conscience, an inability to feel for another human
being, reaped the benefits and pulled the strings. 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 and PR specialists —
in short, the whole crew of certifiable psychopaths
running our so-called civilization. And they are
running scared.
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. Psychopaths go through life knowing that they are
completely different from other people. Deep down they
know something is missing in them. 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 healthy 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 and as quickly as possible. Until the knowledge
and awareness of pathological human beings is given
the attention it deserves and becomes part of the
general knowledge of all human beings, there is no way
that things can be changed in any way that is
effective and long-lasting. If half the people
agitating for truth or stopping the war or saving the
earth would focus their efforts, time and money on
exposing psychopathy, we might get somewhere.
One might ask if the weak point of our society has
been our tolerance of psychopathic behavior? Our
disbelief that someone could seem like an intelligent
leader and still be acting deceptively on their own
behalf without conscience? Or is it merely ignorance?
If the general voting public is not aware that there
exists a category of people we sometimes perceive as
almost human, who look like us, who work with us, who
are found in every race, every culture, speaking every
language, but who are lacking conscience, how can the
general public take care to block them from taking
over the hierarchies? General ignorance of
psychopathology may prove to be the downfall of
civilization. We stand by like grazing sheep as
political/corporate elites throw armies of our
innocent sons and daughters against fabricated enemies
as a way of generating trillions in profits, vying
against each other for pathological hegemony.
Nearly everyone who has been part of an organization
working for social change has probably seen the same
dynamic play out: The good and sincere work of many
can be destroyed by the actions of one person. That
doesn't bode well for bringing some sort of justice to
the planet! In fact, if psychopaths dominate political
hierarchies, is it any wonder that peaceful
demonstrations have zero impact on the outcome of
political decisions? Perhaps it is time to choose
something other than massive, distant hierarchies as a
way of governing ourselves? So many efforts to provide
essays, research reports, exposés and books to leaders
so they might take the new information to heart and
change their behavior have come to naught. For
example, in the final paragraph of his revised edition
of the book, The Party's Over, Richard Heinberg
writes: I still believe that if the people of the
world can be helped to understand the situation we are
in, the options available, and the consequences of the
path we are currently on, then it is at least possible
that they can be persuaded to undertake the
considerable effort and sacrifice that will be
entailed in a peaceful transition to a sustainable,
locally based, decentralized, low-energy,
resource-conserving social regime.
But inspired leadership will be required.
And that is the just-murdered fantasy. There are no
inspired leaders anymore. And in hierarchical
structures there can't be. Assuming that you can elect
men or women to office who will see reason and the
light of day, and who will change and learn and grow,
make compassionate decisions and take conscientious
actions… is a foolish, childish dream. Continuing to
dream it simply plays into psychopathic agendas. Only
when the 75% of humanity with a healthy conscience
come to understand that we have a natural predator, a
group of people who live amongst us, viewing us as
powerless victims to be freely fed upon for achieving
their inhuman ends, only then will we take the fierce
and immediate actions needed to defend what is
preciously human. Psychological deviants have to be
removed from any position of power over people of
conscience, period. People must be made aware that
such individuals exist and must learn how to spot them
and their manipulations. The hard part is that one
must also struggle against those tendencies to mercy
and kindness in oneself in order not to become prey.
The real problem is that the knowledge of psychopathy
and how psychopaths rule the world has been
effectively hidden.
People do not have the adequate, nuanced knowledge
they need to really make a change from the bottom up.
Again and again, throughout history it has been meet
the new boss, same as the old boss. If there is any
work that is deserving of full time efforts and
devotion for the sake of helping humanity in this
present dark time, it is the study of psychopathy and
the propagation of this information as far and wide
and fast as possible. There are only two things that
can bring a psychopath under submission:1. A bigger
psychopath.2. The non-violent, absolute refusal to
submit to psychopathic controls no matter the
consequences (non-violent noncompliance) .
Let us choose path 2! If individuals simply sat down
and refused to lift a hand to further one single aim
of the psychopathic agenda, if people refused to pay
taxes, if soldiers refused to fight, if government
workers and corporate drones and prison guards refused
to go to work, if doctors refused to treat
psychopathic elites and their families, the whole
system would grind to a screeching halt. True change
happens in the moment that a person becomes aware of
psychopathy in all its chilling details. From this new
awareness, the world looks different, and entirely new
actions can be taken. Distinguishing between human and
psychopathic qualities begins the foundation of
responsibility upon which we have a real chance to
create sustainable culture.
Clinton Callahan, originator of Possibility
Management, author of Radiant Joy Brilliant Love,
founder of Callahan Academy, empowers responsible
creative leadership through authentic personal
development.
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