ur 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 labour 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.” Incidentally, the latter term
is a euphemism for mass murder.
The prevailing recipe for civilization is
simple:
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Use lies and brainwashing to create an
army of controlled, systematic mass
murderers;
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Use that army to enslave large numbers
of people (i.e. seize control of their
labour power and its fruits);
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Use that slave labour 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
Donald 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, p. 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.
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The implication, too frightening for even
the likes of Marshall and Grossman to fully
digest, was that the norms for soldiers’
behaviour 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. 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 then 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. 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;
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.”
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.
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
behaviour 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. 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, ChÈ,
AllendÈ, 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. 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. 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.
All of this psychopathic behaviour 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’ wilful
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.
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 favourite social control mechanism —
ritualized mass slaughter — is increasingly
unavailable. And if war was the great human
tragedy, the pathocrats’ pathetic attempt at
a war-substitute — the transparently phoney
“war on terror” — is repeating it as
sheerest farce.
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 others, however humbly, are now
participating.
About the writer:
Dr.
Kevin Barrett, co-founder of the
Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for 9/11
Truth,
LINK, has taught English, French,
Arabic, American Civilization, Humanities,
African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at
colleges and universities in the San
Francisco Bay area, Paris, and Madison,
Wisconsin. Barrett became a 9/11 truth
activist in 2004 after reading David
Griffin's The New Pearl Harbor and
conducting follow-up research that convinced
him Griffin had accurately summarized
evidence indicating 9/11 was an inside job.
In the
summer of 2006, Republican state legislators
and Fox newscasters demanded that Barrett be
fired from his job teaching an introductory
Islam class at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, but the University
refused to buckle, and Barrett got high
marks from his students. He has appeared in
several documentary films, lectures widely
on 9/11 and hosts three radio programs on
three different patriot networks.