[NYTr] Twilight of the Psychopaths

Mon Jan 7 02:20:37 EST 2008

[This has been cross-posted to a zillion blogs, many of them in the
9/11 conspiracy world.  This is the original post from The Canadian,
which describes itself thus:

"The Canadian is an editorially independent and not-for-profit national
newspaper. It is inspired by Canada's very first newspaper called 'Le
Canadien' that was founded in 1806.

"We are committed to affirming a sovereign Canada, by defending the
national public interest via a critical approach to mass-media
coverage. The aspirations for a sovereign Canada had inspired the
journalists of 'Le Canadien', as well as Tommy Douglas, former Prime
Minister Trudeau, and other Canadians, toward the pursuit of the
Canadian Dream. Trudeau had specifically referred this Canadian Dream,
as the pursuit of a socially progressive 'Just Society'."

The original post also has some good political cartoons. Unfortunately,
this piece has no bibliography, end-notes or embedded links. What
Barrett has to say is quite interesting, whether you agree with all of
his premises or not. And if you are unfamiliar with the notion that Mark
David Chapman was a mind-control victim, don't dismiss Barrett before
you even read the second paragraph. There's  plenty of evidence that
Chapman, very much like John Hinckley (who shot Reagan shortly
thereafter) were both mind-controlled. Their activities and experiences 
before their violent assassination attempts are also remarkably
similar.-NYTransfer]

The Canadian - Jan 2, 2008
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2008/01/02/02073.html

Twilight of the Psychopaths

by Dr. Kevin Barrett

"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 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:

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 labour power and its fruits);

3) 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.

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, Che,
Allende, 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.

[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.]