{"id":2052,"date":"2022-05-10T19:21:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/10\/an-oligarchic-pathocracy\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T19:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:21:20","slug":"an-oligarchic-pathocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/10\/an-oligarchic-pathocracy\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oligarchic Pathocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

That may well be what we have going in the good old USA at present. You decide.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Oligarchy<\/em>: a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. (Merriam-Webster)<\/span><\/p>\n

Pathocracy<\/em>: "<\/span>A system of government . . . wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people." (Andrew M. Lobaczewski, Political Ponerology: The Science of Evil, Psychopathy, and the Origins of Totalitarianism<\/em>,  Red Pill Press, 2022, p.  195.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What are some characteristics of normal people? Normal people understand and can explain the difference between men and women.  Normal people grasp instantly the unfairness of allowing biological males to compete in female sporting events.   Normal people understand that "Words mean things" (Rush Limbaugh) and must not be hijacked to Left coast destinations. Normal people have moral sense enough to know that it is wrong to lie in the manner of Joe Biden, Alejandro Mayorkas and the rest of the pathocrats in control of the country.  Normal people understand that 'equity' is a sham construct designed to elide the self-evident distinction between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the Pathocracy Blog<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Pathocracy<\/span><\/h2>\n

from Greek pathos, \u201cfeeling, pain, suffering\u201d; and kratos, \u201crule\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Characteristics<\/span><\/h3>\n

1. suppression of individualism and creativity.<\/span>
2. impoverishment of artistic values.<\/span>
3. impoverishment of moral values; a social structure based on self-interest and one-upmanship, rather than altruism.<\/span>
4. fanatical ideology; often a corrupted form of a valid viable \u2018trojan\u2019 ideology which is perverted into a pathological form, bearing little resemblance to the substance of the original.<\/span>
5. intolerance and suspicion of anyone who is different, or who disagrees with the state.<\/span>
6. centralized control.<\/span>
7. widespread corruption.<\/span>
8. secret activities within government, but surveillance of the general population. (In contrast, a healthy society would have transparent government processes, and respect for privacy of the individual citizen).<\/span>
9. paranoid and reactionary government.<\/span>
10. excessive, arbitrary, unfair and inflexible legislation; the power of decision making is reduced\/removed from the citizens\u2019 everyday lives.<\/span>
11. an attitude of hypocrisy and contempt demonstrated by the actions of the ruling class, towards the ideals they claim to follow, and towards the citizens they claim to represent.<\/span>
12. controlled media, dominated by propaganda.<\/span>
13. extreme inequality between the richest and poorest.<\/span>
14. endemic use of corrupted psychological reasoning such as paramoralisms, conversive thinking and doubletalk.<\/span>
15. rule by force and\/or fear of force.<\/span>
16. people are considered as a \u2018resource\u2019 to be exploited (hence the term \u201chuman resources\u201d), rather than as individuals with intrinsic human worth.<\/span>
17. spiritual life is restricted to inflexible and indoctrinare schemes. Anyone attempting to go beyond these boundaries is considered a heretic or insane, and therefore dangerous.<\/span>
18. arbitrary divisions in the population (class, ethnicity, creed) are inflamed into conflict with one another.<\/span>
19. suppression of free speech \u2013 public debate, demonstration, protest.<\/span>
20. violation of basic human rights, for example: restriction or denial of basic life necessities such as food, water, shelter; detainment without charge; torture and abuse; slave labour.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That may well be what we have going in the good old USA at present. You decide. Oligarchy: a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. (Merriam-Webster) Pathocracy: "A system of government . . . wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people." … Continue reading “An Oligarchic Pathocracy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,29,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-political-ponerology","category-social-and-political-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}