Andrew Lobaczewski - Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes

more general values. The result of this would be the nation’s

economic development, political skill, and creative role in the

international sphere.

The priorities in terms of value criteria would thus shift

consistently in the direction of psychological, social, and moral

data. This is in keeping with the spirit of the times, but actual

execution thereof demands imaginative effort and constructive

thought in order to achieve the above-mentioned practical

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goals. After all, everything begins and ends within the human

psyche.

Such a system would have to be evolutionary by nature, as

it would be based upon an acceptance of evolution as a law of

nature. Natural evolutionary factors would play an important

role therein, such as the course of cognition continually proc-

essing from more primitive and easily accessible data to more

actual, intrinsic, and subtle matters. The principle of evolution

would have to be imprinted firmly enough upon the basic phi-

losophical foundations of such a system so as to protect it con-

sistently from future revolution.

Such a social system would by nature be more resistant to

the danger of having macrosocial pathological phenomena

develop within. Its foundations would be an improved devel-

opment of the psychological world view and society’s links

structure coupled with a scientific and social consciousness of

the essence of such phenomena. This should furnish the foun-

dation for mature methods of education. Such a system should

also have built-in permanent institutions which were heretofore

unknown and whose task will be preventing the development

of ponerogenic processes within society, particularly among

governing authorities.

A “Council of Wise Men” would be an institution com-

posed of several people with extremely high general, medical,

and psychological qualifications; it would have the right to

examine the physical and psychological health of candidates

before the latter are elected to the highest government posi-

tions. A negative council opinion should be hard to challenge.

That same council would serve the head of state, the legislative

authorities, and the executives regarding counsel in matters

entering its scope of scientific competence. It would also ad-

dress the public in important matters of biological and psycho-

logical life, indicating essential moral aspects. Such a council’s

duties would also include maintaining contact and discussions

with the religious authorities in such matters.

The security system for persons with various psychological

deviations would be in charge of making their life easier while

skillfully limiting their participation in the processes of the

genesis of evil. After all, such persons are not impervious to

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persuasion provided it is based upon proper knowledge of the

matter. Such an approach would also help progressively dimin-

ish societies’ gene pool burdens of hereditary aberrations. The

Council of Wise Men would furnish the scientific supervision

for such activities.

The legal system would be subjected to wide ranging trans-

formations in virtually every area, progressing from formulae

whose establishment was based on a society’s natural world

view and ancient tradition to legal solutions based upon an

objective apperception of reality, particularly the psychological

one. As a result, law studies would have to undergo true mod-

ernization, since the law would become a scientific discipline

sharing the same epistemological principles as all the other

sciences.

What is now called “penal” law would be superseded by

another kind of law with a completely modernized foundation

based on an understanding of the genesis of evil and of the

personalities of people who commit evil. Such law would be

significantly more humanitarian while furnishing individuals

and societies more effective protection from undeserved abuse.

Of course, the operational measures would be much more

complex and more dependent upon a better understanding of

causation than could ever possibly be the case in a punitive

system. A trend toward transformations in this direction is evi-

dent in the legislation of civilized nations. The social system

proposed herein would have to break through traditions in this

area in a more effective way.

No government whose system is based on an understanding

of the laws of nature, whether concerning physical and biologi-

cal phenomena or the nature of man, can lay a claim to sover-

eignty in the meaning we have inherited from the nineteenth

century and subsequent nationalistic or totalitarian systems. We

share the same air and water throughout our planet. Common

cultural values and basic moral criteria are becoming wide

spread. The world is interlinked in transportation, communica-

tion, and trade and has become Our Planet. Under such condi-

tions, interdependence and cooperation with other nations and

supranational institutions, as well as moral responsibility for

overall fate, become a law of nature. The national organism

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becomes autonomous but not independent. This must be regu-

lated by means of the appropriate treaties and incorporated into

national constitutions.

A system thus envisaged would be superior to all its prede-

cessors, being based upon an understanding of the laws of na-

ture operating within individuals and societies, with objective

knowledge progressively superceding opinions based upon

natural responses to phenomena. We should call it a

“LOGOCRACY”.

Due to their properties and conformity to the laws of nature

and evolution, logocratic systems could guarantee social and

international order on a long-term basis. In keeping with their

nature, they would then become transformed into more perfect

forms, a vague and faraway vision of which may beckon to us

in the present.

The author has survived many dangerous situations and be-

come disappointed with many people and institutions. How-

ever, the Great Providence has never disappointed him under

the most difficult circumstances. This condition suffices to

permit him to promise that elaborating a more detailed draft for

such a necessary better system will also be possible.

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