It is also worth pointing out here that the chief doctrine of
said system reads “Existence defines consciousness”. As such,
it belongs to psychology rather than to any political doctrine.
This doctrine actually contradicts a good deal of empirical data
indicating the role of hereditary factors in the development of
man’s personality and fate. Lecturers may refer to research on
identical twins, but only in a brief, cautious, and formal fash-
115 This is also the case in the U.S. as noted in several articles by Robert
Hare. [Editor’s note.]
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ion. Considerations on this subject may, however, not be pub-
lished in print.
We return once more to this system’s peculiar psychological
“genius” and its self-knowledge. One might admire how the
above mentioned definitions of psychopathy effectively blocks
the ability to comprehend phenomena covered therein. We may
investigate the relationships between these prohibitions and the
essence of the macrosocial phenomenon they in fact mirror.
We may also observe the limits of these skills and the errors
committed by those who execute this strategy. These shortcom-
ings are skillfully taken advantage of for purposes of smug-
gling through some proper knowledge on the part of the more
talented specialists, or by elderly people no longer fearful for
their careers or even their lives.
The “ideological” battle is thus being waged on territory
completely unperceived by scientists living under governments
of normal human structures and attempting to imagine that
other reality. This applies to all people denouncing “Commu-
nism”, as well as those for whom this ideology has become
their faith.
Shortly after arriving in the U.S.A. , I was handed a news-
paper by a young black man on some street in Queens, N.Y. I
reached for my purse, but he waved me off; the paper was free.
The front page showed a picture of a young and handsome
Brezhnev decorated with all the medals he did not in fact re-
ceive until much later. On the last page, however, I found a
quite well-worked-out summary of investigations performed at
the University of Massachusetts on identical twins raised sepa-
rately. These investigations furnished empirical indications for
the important role of heredity, and the description contained a
literary illustration of the similarity of the fates of twin pairs.
How far “ideologically disorientated” the editors of this paper
must have been to publish something which could never have
appeared in the area subjected to a supposedly Communist
system.116
116 The freedom that !obaczewski noted in the U.S. in the 1980 is fast being
replaced by an almost total pathocracy. It won’t be long before such articles
are censored in U.S. newspapers as well, unless, of course, the study is “de-
signed” to prove the superiority of psychopathy. [Editor’s note.]
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PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
In that other reality, the battlefront crosses every study of
psychology and psychiatry, every psychiatric hospital, every
mental health consultation center, and the personality of every-
one working in these areas. What takes place there: hidden
thrust-and-parry duels, a smuggling through of true scientific
information and accomplishments, and harassment.
Some people become morally derailed under these condi-
tions, whereas others create a solid foundation for their convic-
tions and are prepared to undertake difficulty and risk in order
to obtain honest knowledge so as to serve the sick and needy.
The initial motivation of this latter group is thus not political in
character, since it derives from their good will and professional
decency. Their consciousness of the political causes of the
limitations and the political meaning of this battle is raised
later, in conjunction with experience and professional maturity,
especially if their experience and skills must be used in order to
save persecuted people.
In the meantime, however, the necessary scientific data and
papers must be obtained somehow, taking difficulties and other
people’s lack of understanding into account. Students and be-
ginning specialists not yet aware of what was removed from
the educational curricula attempt to gain access to the scientific
data stolen from them. Science starts to be degraded at a worri-
some rate once such awareness is missing.
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We need to understand the nature of the macrosocial phe-
nomenon as well as that basic relationship and controversy
between the pathological system and those areas of science
which describe psychological and psychopathological phenom-
ena. Otherwise, we cannot become fully conscious of the rea-
sons for such a government’s long published behavior.
A normal person’s actions and reactions, his ideas and
moral criteria, all too often strike abnormal individuals as ab-
normal. For if a person with some psychological deviations
considers himself normal, which is of course significantly eas-
ier if he possesses authority, then he would consider a normal
person different and therefore abnormal, whether in reality or
as a result of conversive thinking. That explains why such peo-
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ple’s government shall always have the tendency to treat any
dissidents as “mentally abnormal”.
Operations such as driving a normal person into psycho-
logical illness and the use of psychiatric institutions for this
purpose take place in many countries in which such institutions
exist. Contemporary legislation binding upon normal man’s
countries is not based upon an adequate understanding of the
psychology of such behavior, and thus does not constitute a
sufficient preventive measure against it.
Within the categories of a normal psychological world
view, the motivations for such behavior were variously under-
stood and described: personal and family accounts, property
matters, intent to discredit a witness’ testimony, and even po-
litical motivations. Such defamatory suggestions are used par-
ticularly often by individuals who are themselves not entirely
normal, whose behavior has driven someone to a nervous
breakdown or to violent protest. Among hysterics, such behav-
ior tends to be a projection onto other people of one’s own self-
critical associations. A normal person strikes a psychopath as a
naive, smart-alecky believer in barely comprehensible theories;
calling him “crazy” is not all that far away.
Therefore, when we set up a sufficient number of examples
of this kind or collect sufficient experience in this area, another
more essential motivational level for such behavior becomes
apparent. What happens as a rule is that the idea of driving
someone into mental illness issues from minds with various
aberrations and psychological defects. Only rarely does the
component of pathological factors take part in the ponerogene-