Dick Cheney's Heart of Evil, Psychopathic Political Systems, And The Correct Uses of Social Stigma
“Ponerology was born in the crucible of attempts to understand, scientifically, a macro-social phenomenon of what can only be called extreme and excessive evil: Fascism and Soviet Communism.” - Andrew M. Lobaczewski, a Polish psychiatrist and author of the book, “Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes.”Definition of Pathocracy (from the website The Pathocracy Blog):
“Definition: pathocracy (n). A system of government created by a small pathological minority that takes control over a society of normal people (from Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes, by Andrew Lobaczewski)
from Greek pathos, “feeling, pain, suffering”; and kratos, “rule”
A totalitarian form of government in which absolute political power is held by a psychopathic elite, and their effect on the people is such that the entire society is ruled and motivated by purely pathological values.
A pathocracy can take many forms and can insinuate itself covertly into any seemingly just system or ideology. As such it can masquerade under the guise of a democracy or theocracy as well as more openly oppressive regimes.”
“That is the nature of professional politics. Many are called, but few survive the nut-cutting hour–which appears to be coming down on our goofy Child President these days. . . . Ah, but it was ever thus, eh? Vicious thieves have always ruled the world. It is our wa. We are like pigs in the wilderness.” – Hunter S. Thompson, from “Kingdom of Fear.”
Chris Hayes: Given the sort of consensus of normality that has seemed to sort of now settled in over the policy disputes of torture, and illegal wiretapping, etc. How do you begin to culturally counteract that, if that’s not too broad a question? Because this notion of how you kind of mark off what is over some line in polite society is a really tricky one, but I feel like there has to be some sort of concerted effort at least among critics and intellectuals, and other people paying attention, that does that.Glenn Greenwald: Well, law is supposed to be, of course, the principal way to say there’s certain lines that you cannot cross, right. I mean, there’s certain things that are impolite that might result in social stigma, but there’s certain things that you can’t do that are far worse than impolite, they’re criminal, and you’re supposed to go to prison for them. And we’ve erased those lines.But, as you’ve suggested, we’ve erased an even more disturbing line which is even the idea of a social stigma. So, you know, we love in American politics and American political discourse to talk about other countries’s leaders and the horrible crimes they’ve committed, and look at what these dictators are doing, and these awful people in that other country are doing. And yet, we have political leaders, a class of leaders who have committed what we’ve always said, what we Americans have always said for decades, are among the worst and most egregious crimes.And independent of the legal immunity, you’re absolutely right, you won’t see barely any media figures treating Dick Cheney with even the smallest degree of hostility or animosity. He will be treated like any other elder statesman, who might have some political controversial positions, but he won’t be shunned by anyone. And what that guarantees is that behaviour becomes normalized. Both parties have accepted it by not prosecuting it. And I think that’s a very dangerous thing to do.
Protagoras said Zeus feared that “our race was in danger of utter destruction.” So he sent his messenger, Hermes, down to earth with two gifts which would enable men at last to practice “the art of politics” successfully and establish cities where they could live together in safety and in amity. The two gifts Zeus sent down to man were aidos and dike. Aidos is a sense of shame, a concern for the good opinion of others. It is the shame a soldier feels in betraying his fellows on the battlefield, or a citizen if he is caught doing something dishonorable. Dike here means respect for the rights of others. It implies a sense of justice, and it makes civic peace possible by settling disputes through adjudication. In acquiring aidos and dike, men would at last be able to ensure their survival. (Stone, ‘The Trial of Socrates’: Pg. 47-48). For a longer passage of this quote, go here.
“When powerful people are not held to account, when they have no worry about their reputations, it creates a moral hazard – not unlike what’s happened with the banks. Anti-social behaviour is rewarded, failure is also rewarded, and we’re trapped inside a system of perverse incentives.”
That’s what happens when the Government — marching under the deceitful Orwellian banner of Look Forward, Not Backward – demands that its citizens avert their eyes from the crimes of their leaders so that all can be forgotten: the crimes become non-crimes, legitimate acts of political choice, and the criminalsbecome instantly rehabilitated by the message that nothing they did warrants punishment. That’s the same reason people like John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales are defending their torture and illegal spying actions not in a courtroom but in a lush conference of elites in Aspen.
I’m not sure how much responsibility lies with political agents like Dick Cheney and David Addington for the crimes of torture, spying, false flag terrorism, and aggressive wars — and how much responsibility should be attributed to the economic and political power elite. And how much blame does a pseudo-philosopher like neoconservative Michael Ledeen deserve for the 9/11 crime and the illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan?
There is only one way out of the darkness and modern wasteland, and that is through the blazed trail of knowledge. So keep blazing away my fellow infosoldiers!
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Wow! That was an eloquently stated summation of exactly how important it is that those that betray public trust must be held accountable. Due process, applied fairly, is a fundamental element of any free society. When it is applied fairly nations flourish, when the working class is exploited by corrupted boot lickers of the overlords, nations seem to spiral into dysfunctional degradation.
Cheney and Rumsfeld have been in and around the White House since the early 60′s. If any two war sluts have had a major impact on this country over the last 50 years it would be these two. It is my opinion that John Wayne Gacey looks like a choirboy compared to these two “partners in crime”.
Makes John Gotti look like a freakin’ cherub.