Twilight of the Psychopaths

"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 David 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 labor 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.” The latter term is a euphemism for mass murder. (1)

The 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 labor power and its fruits).

3) Use that slave labor 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 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 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. (2)

The implication, too frightening for even the likes of Marshall and Grossman to fully digest, was that the norms for soldiers’ behavior 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. (3) 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 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. (4) 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; (5) 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.” (6) 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. (7)

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 behavior 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. (8) 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, Ché, Allendé, 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. (9) 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. (10) 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. (11) All of this psychopathic behavior 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’ willful 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. (12)

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 favorite social control mechanism—ritualized mass slaughter—is increasingly unavailable. (13) 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. (14)

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, however humbly, are participating.

Notes

1) Actually it is not quite that simple. The organized warfare that civilizations are based on is mass murder pure and simple. But pre-civilized tribal warfare is uncontrolled and relatively non-lethal. Each tribal warrior performs feats of bravery as he sees fit, with no command structure to direct him. The result is more like a contact sport than a modern war. Pre-civilized warfare has few casualties and low economic stakes. It is a genuine expression of the warrior ethic. Civilized warfare, or mass murder, uses the warrior ethic that is the part of the human male genetic endowment in order to trick men into joining the meaningless mass slaughter of the civilized battlefield. See Gwynne Dyer, War (NY: Crown, 1985).

2) At least in organized warfare. Some people do kill in order to defend their friends and families against obvious aggression, and a few kill in the heat of passion. These are normal human responses, as opposed to the psychopathic, highly organized, ritualized mass slaughter of the battlefield.

3) Andrzej Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes (Canada: Red Pill Press, 1998).

4) I am indebted to Peter Dale Scott for the term “overworld,” which he uses in his brilliant analysis of the ongoing psychopathic takeover of the US government entitled The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire and the Future of America (Berkeley: UC Press, 2007). Scott defines the term as “that realm of wealthy or privileged society that, although not formally authorized or institutionalized, is the scene of successful influence of the government by private power” (2).

5) See John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (NY: Penguin, 2004, 2006) and The Secret History of the American Empire (NY: Penguin, 2007). I interviewed Perkins Tuesday, 1/15/2008, 9-11 pm CT, www.wtprn.com, to be archived at http://mp3.wtprn.com/Barrett07.html.

6) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush

7) Webster Tarpley, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (Washington, D.C.: Executive Intelligence Review, 1992) p.474.

8)Yes, believe it or not, they really do masturbate in coffins. See Alexandra Robbins, Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power (NY: Little, Brown, 2003). Excerpted at http://www.secretsofthetomb.com/excerpt.asp.

9) William Blum uses the term American holocaust in Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004).

10) John W. DeCamp, The Franklin Coverup: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska (Lincoln, NE: AWT, 1996). My 11/13/2007 and 11/27/2007 interviews with John DeCamp are archived at http://mp3.wtprn.com/Barrett07.html. See also Cathy O’Brien with Mark Phillips, Trance Formation of America (Reality Marketing, 1995).

11) For an introduction to the evidence that 9/11 was an inside job, see www.mujca.com/newyork.htm. For an introduction to 9/11 as a psychological operation, see www.mujca.com/apoclaypse.htm

12) Personally I wish Dr. Paul would recognize that large corporations, like governments, are the creations and tools of psychopaths, and that corporate personhood should be revoked, and great wealth severely taxed and regulated.

13) This insight—that nuclear weapons mean the game of war is up—is the centerpiece of Dyer’s magisterial War. The psychopathic elites’ fear of losing war as a social control tool is explicitly laid out by the pathocrats themselves in Report from Iron Mountain, discussed in G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island (Westlake Village, CA: American Media, 2007) pp 523-526, and available online at http://educate-yourself.org/nwo/reportironmountain1.shtml. My radio interview with G. Edward Griffin is available at http://www.alexjonesfan58.com/mp3/20071216_kevinbarrett_cfr.mp3.

14) On the scripted insanity of 9/11 and the post-9/11 era, see my earlier essay “The Madman Theory: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love 9/11” in Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie, 140-145.

By Kevin Barrett

http://www.barrettforcongress.us/twilight.htm

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