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Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes Paperback – 1 April 2007

by Andrew M. Lobaczewski (Author), Laura Knight-Jadczyk (Introduction)

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"Political Ponerology is fascinating, essential reading." --Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect"This is an extraordinary book." --Ilan Pappe, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of PalestineThe original manuscript of this book went into the furnace minutes before a secret police raid in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled by scientists working under impossible conditions of violence and repression, was sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged - the manuscript and all valuable data lost. In 1984, the third and final copy was written from memory by the last survivor of the original researchers: Andrew Lobaczewski. Zbigniew Brzezinski blocked its publication. After half a century of suppression, this book is finally available. Political Ponerology is shocking in its clinically spare descriptions of the true nature of evil. It is poignant in its more literary passages revealing the immense suffering experienced by the researchers contaminated or destroyed by the disease they were studying. Political Ponerology is a study of the founders and supporters of oppressive political regimes. Lobaczewski s approach analyzes the common factors that lead to the propagation of man s inhumanity to man. Morality and humanism cannot long withstand the predations of this evil. Knowledge of its nature and its insidious effect on both individuals and groups - is the only antidote.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Pill Press; 2nd edition (1 April 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1897244258
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1897244258
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.4 x 22.86 cm

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Michael LR

This needs to be known

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 December 2012

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For the sake of hope in restoring a sane humanity. Yes it's a harder read but nevertheless demonstrates us out of the 'we are all a little bad and a little good' reason for why the world is running so counter to any of the human values we like to warm ourselves with. It's a strong scientific jab down the middle of the mental noise we've been taught to think with.

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A must read in order to understand the world today.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2016

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A must read in order to understand the world today.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 August 2014

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An essential read I think.

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Mr. N. Moffatt

Vital messages, but incredibly obscure writing style

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 July 2011

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There are very meaningful messages in this book, but the writing style is so laboured, so awkward that they are mostly obscured. Many paragraphs I found to be incomprehensible - I simply had no idea what was being said. By way of example :

"Analysis of the different experiential manner demonstrated by these individuals caused us to conclude that their instinctive substratum is also defective, containing certain gaps and lacking syntonic responses commonly evidenced by members of the species Homo Sapiens."

If you are smarter than I and can make sense of the prose, it is a profound book as it covers in detail how 'evil' evolves and is sustained and will only get worse in a World that is obsessed with large, fractured communities. The odd concept I gleaned was worth the effort, but much better for the translation from Polish to have been written by a clearer communicator.

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“NOTHING LIKE A BIT OF WORD SALAD IS THERE?”

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 October 2017

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Madness is contagious, whether we are drawn to admire a slash in a white canvas, a late work by Lucio Fontana; or drawn, as they were in 1911, to crowd round the space left on The Louvre wall after the Mona Lisa had been stolen. Wikipedia opines that Lucio Fontana “punctured the surface of his canvases, breaking the membrane of two-dimensionality in order to highlight the space behind the picture”.

Madness is fire. Communion is fire.

“After half a century of suppression, this book is finally available.”

“The original manuscript of this book went into the furnace minutes before a secret police raid in Communist Poland. The second copy, painfully reassembled by scientists working under impossible conditions of violence and repression, was sent via courier to the Vatican. Its receipt was never acknowledged - the manuscript and all valuable data lost. In 1984, the third and final copy was written from memory”

These breathless and craven words of the publisher recreate the fiction of “The Da Vinci Code”. If we are to believe “what it says on the tin” and some of the evangelical Amazon reviewers who led me, like a moron, to read Ponerology, this is the one book we must read to avoid the collapse of the world; for us to be instrumental in saving it. That is why I bought it; as a prophylactic. Doh.

Like “The Cure for all Cancers” and “The Book of Mormon” and “Dianetics” this book is little more than another example of preposterous “word salad”; this time from a lost soul who roamed The Wasteland of the earth in the eighties masquerading as a psychotherapist “researcher” working under the name of Andrew Lobaczewski. However, like “Glamour – a world problem” by Alice Bailey, the insanity of it all is a struggle to parse and unravel. The unfortunate and demented Pole has found an accessory in The Red Pill Press; and with Laura Knight-Jadczyk as editor, they wager that any books, by merit of the gloss that comes over them from rejection, have something to offer merely because they have not been printed.
Milton Erickson, the most famous hypnotist of them all, whose reputation perhaps needs the corrective of recent views that he was a pig, once had a patient who spoke “word salad”. Word salad is speech made up of continuous words without meaning. The psychiatrist arranged for his secretary to take down the whole declamation verbatim. Erickson then painstakingly learned the features of the unique language and spoke it back to the patient until the man, feeling the restorative of having been rumbled, thought better of it. Many years later he sent Milton a postcard from the volcano: “Nothing like a bit of word salad is there?”
It’s true. Words are redolent with promises made years ago that still draw us in. Words can stick; whether we take their burrs on by way of advertisement or the fortune teller. Word games, lexicons, folk song and riddles; the last words of Gertrude Stein or Cecil Rhodes; words from the gallows; words in any order and out of order, all have charm. Even the loveless, disordered and interminable ravings, like these of the lunatic, have power to puzzle and amaze us. Lobaczewski twice consigned his work to the refining fire; as we all should do with our Amazon reviews. The first time, if we are to believe the man (and what reason is there that we should?) the words were fed literally to the flames while the second version did not survive the imprimatur of The Vatican. Perhaps this wasteful book, “Ponerology -a science on the nature of evil” will be taken up by Dan Brown, as he did for Merovingian kings and The Holy Grail. But let’s hope that the words themselves will survive unadulterated and not be made into a film. It’s salutary to see, in this bizarre book, an example of word salad written down. . Tom Hanks would be the kiss of Death.

Here are some examples of Ponerology drivel: “Man’s age-old, familiar moral weaknesses and intelligence deficiencies, proper reasoning, and knowledge combine with the activity of various pathological factors to create a complex network of causation which frequently contains feedback relationships or closed causal structures.” Page71
“Practicing psychotherapy upon the world will therefore demand that the results of such evil be eliminated as skilfully as possible.”Page 128
“There are many advantages to be gained from constructively planning the future, including the more distant time perspective, if we can foresee its shape and facilitate pinpointed solutions” Page205
“Within a short period of time, this begins to protect them from the ponerogenic activities of pathological factors mobilized with the pathocracy’s monolithic front.” Page 203
“If someone asked me what should be done to heal the United States of America, a country which manifests symptoms of macropathy, inter alia, I would advise subdividing that vast nation into thirteen states.”Page 56

Catherine Austin Fitts, emboldened as founder of “Solari Investment Advisory Services” and “Assistant Secretary of Housing in the first Bush Administration” says “I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is managing human or financial risk.” It’s like recommending The Yorkshire Ripper if you want advice on panel beating. It is dispiriting to realise that this desperate monologue has people with such low qualification, desperate to appear in print, prepared to side with its morose joyless ramblings inviting others into the same monotonous vacuum.

Can we shake off the influence, the baleful charm of madmen when they take up words in this manner? Should we react when a beggar, aping a friendly compeer, comes up and shows us some money only to say that he only needs a few coppers to make up his taxi fare? This book might afford some light for such shades. It would show them that all you need to get the attention of anyone is to start speaking; but to capitalise on that first foray you will need to start writing; and fade away reading Thomas Pynchthon.

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Carl

Truly mind expanding

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2012

This is the first book that I've read that affected me so much that I felt the urge to write a review.

Lobaczewski delves into the questions that have perplexed mankind for thousands of years, and gives a stunningly clear and scientific view on how evil takes over societies. If you have always been perplexed over how our "leaders" can stand in front of a camera and tell outright lies, organise the deaths of millions, and yet seemingly feel no remorse, you need to read this book.

The language is incredibly dense, and will most likely require your absolute attention and the looking up of many words (it certainly did for me). Do not be fooled by the small size of the book, it will take a while to read!
However once you begin to get used to his writing style, he becomes easier to follow, and it will be clear that he uses such language in order to be as objective as possible. This leads to a book with a very clear message, and there can be no misunderstanding if you follow it fully.

This book has helped me understand many things about human history and the current world, and has really helped me on my way to regaining my own mental 'hygiene' as Lobaczewski calls it. I give this a truly deserved 5-star rating and I recommend it to anybody who is searching for the truth about the suffering of mankind.

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