Political Ponerology and the entropy of Human Consciousness in Society

Ponerology is a term coined by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Lobaczewski prior to the institution of Communism. 
It is an interdisciplinary study of social issues aggregating data from Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and History. 

Ponerology accounts for such phenomena as: 

Aggressive War 

Ethnic Cleansing

Genocide

and Despotism

The term Ponerology, was adopted from a branch of Theology dealing with the study of evil. 

Derived from the Greek word Poneros. In Modern Greek means - "one whose mind tends toward evil, a sly underhanded person, or even one with a “dirty” mind". 

The word is related to the word Ponos, which means Pain. 

Both Pain and Poneros (as well as the English derivatives Penitence and Penitentiary) come from the ancient root Penomai meaning “to exert effort” in the debilitating sense. 

• Pain is the result of this “effort”, and the poneric person (or poneros) is its propagator. 

Actually, “effort” is not precisely the right word. 

• Penomai is something one does to oneself that wears oneself down, that harms the self and makes the self suffer. 

In other words ----- it is an imposition of entropy upon oneself BY oneself. 

We can, therefore, understand the poneric person as a propagator of self-generatedentropy. 

The poneros is not simply someone who acts to cause pain, but someone who acts to create the state of entropic being that perpetuates itself. 

• Biblically, this was identified as the “Lucifer” character. Having infected the psyches of a third of Angelic beings whose minds were harmonious and orderly, became literally possessed by the virus of poneros, thus "falling from grace". As a consequence of this "entropy in the consciousness of Angels", the material realm became manifest to live out that drama having free will governed by natural law.

What the poneros propagates is his or her very state of being. --- the propagation of the entropy of consciousness.

• An analogy would be an AIDS patient spreading germs that infect anything they touch, and that turns whoever is infected into an AIDS carrier as well (Revenge of the Body-snatchers). 

According to the implications of the etymological meaning, the poneric person is not a carrier of some parasite, but a mutation propagating itself by converting other organisms to the same mutational pattern. 

Poneric persons, therefore, constantly break down and undermine their own being, as they are personifications of psychic entropy. 

It stands to reason that if left alone they would simply end up consuming themselves. 

To inhibit or even delay this breakdown, they would need support from others to which they could channel the same dynamics: 

undermining harmony, life and integrity in order to relieve themselves of the self-consuming poneric pressure. 

This is not to be mistaken with a passing of a burden. 

Rather, the pressure poneric people feel is more similar to the reproductive drive. 

As such, propagating the entropy that consumes them, regardless if others become directly poneric or simply victims of other forms of breakdown (pain and suffering), gives the propagators of ponos a sense of accomplishment and meaning to their life (no matter how they dress it up). 

Indeed, they do dress it (often in elaborate and deceptive ways), not because they feel misgivings, but as camouflage to make propagation easier. 

In that sense, ideological dressings (such as communism, democracy, or fascism) are similar to biological adaptations to better serve the poneric drive. 

• When enough ponerics have been “seeded” to create a pathocracy (literally the “rule of suffering”) the dressings are usually discarded. 

The biological analogy, along with the understanding that poneric infection is a mutation of the mind, may provide insight as to how to deal with it.. 

Lobaczewski's "Ponerology" is literally a gold mine of such insight, and the more we explore it the more “weapons” we can forge to address what amounts to a pathocratic outbreak of epidemic proportions in our current times.

From Wikipedia:

According to Łobaczewski, all societies vacillate between "happy times," or times of prosperity, during which advanced psychological knowledge of psycho-pathological influence in the corridors of power is suppressed, and "unhappy times." During unhappy times, the intelligentsia and society at large can recover this specialized knowledge to resolve the social order along mentally healthier lines. It is to be noted that happy times do not imply morally advanced times, as Łobaczewski makes clear that this happiness or prosperity may well be premised on the oppression of a target group.

Lobaczewski defines many specific character- opathies, which Western psychology would likely refer to as character disorders, as paving the way for the ultimate rule of "essential psychopaths" in full-fledged Pathocracy. This allegedly takes place when society is insufficiently guarded against the minority of such abnormal pathology ever-present in its midst (Łobaczewski asserts that the etiology is almost entirely bio-genetic.) He believes that they infiltrate an institution or state, prevailing moral values are perverted into their opposite, and a coded language like Orwell's doublethink circulates into the mainstream, using para logic and para moralism in place of genuine logicand morality.

There are various identifiable stages of pathocracy described by Lobaczewski. Ultimately, each pathocracy is foredoomed because the root of healthy social morality, according to Łobaczewski, is contained in the congenital instinctive infrastructure in the vast majority of the population. While some in the normal population are more susceptible to pathocratic influence, and become its lackeys, the majority instinctively resist. -Wikipedia

 

Hegelian dialectic slides courtesy: Mark Passio  www.whatonearthishappening.com 

To learn more about Political Ponerology, Psychopathy and the METHODSpsychopaths and Poneric World leaders employ, please visit these sites. 
www.tragedyandhope.com 
http://www.areyoufuelforevil.com/masters-mindset--psychopathy.html 
http://ponerology.blogspot.com/