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daiva's avatar

For all things psychopath, there's a place on 'stacks like no other, quite literally 😊

Welcome to Political Ponerology --> ponerology.substack.com 💯🔥

ETA You're very much on money in pointing at the run-away inflation of this word's semantics, nigh up to irrelevance. In line with other unfortunate victims like fascist, racist, and assorted -phobes.

Psychopath as originally conceived denominates a deeply defective person whose defining fundamental characteristic is utter absence of conscience. One would be excused to even argue psychopaths constitute a distinct human subspecies.

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Although I have started using the word in recent times, I am not sure I believe in "Evil", at least as a human trait. There are people who do evil things, but I think they do them under the duress rather than because they enjoy them. I published this article about I Levels, because I have always presumed that they are developmental, meaning that those who have stalled at a particular developmental level can move on and develop - somehow - but I have no idea how.

I have had to come to terms with pure Evil in the last few years, but I am clinging to the belief that the source is interdimensional or extra-terrestrial, and when manifest in humans it is because the humans were unable to resist the takeover of other beings - not the Christian Devil as such, but a similar concept.

I wrote this up for another website in 2010, and removed the last few paragraphs for publishing here. Here they are, buried deep.

""I" Levels and Reptilians*

"I" level 3 people are the easiest for the reptilians to take over as hosts. They have no innate sympathy or empathy so are very clear channels for the reptilian overlord. They are often very highly intelligent, which makes them perfect to run corporations, governments and the law courts.

"I" level 4 people are more difficult to take over because they might feel sympathy for some of the people the do wrong by. They will act out on behalf of the reptilians but they can become unpredictable and occasionally do not do as they are told when their capacity for sympathy is invoked. Their unpredictability makes it is easier to leave these people alone, but they are useful to use as saboteurs for others who pose more of the threat.

"I" level 5 people are very difficult to take over, however, if they are taken over they can be deadly. Their empathy means they can feel all the evil as well as the good. They can become seriously disaffected with the human race, so if they do allow takeover, they can act out this disaffection big-time. They are maybe found amongst the number of lone killers who randomly kill when they flip. They can be found living in nature as recluses which they do to shut themselves off from the major atrocities being committed by human kind under management of the reptilian overlord. This is not a comfortable world for "I" level 5 people and they have to take consistent measures to protect themselves from the negative data they receive from other beings. They need to take special care with their use of any drugs, negative movies or music, or any other mind control medium.

* note that I use the word Reptilians to cover all the interdimensional or extra-terrestrial beings who are manipulating us for their own ends. This is a complex story"

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daiva's avatar

See my ETA above. Evil might be too spacious a word, rife with a wealth of connotations. It's just a qualifier in the context of rising macrosocial psychopathology somewhat boldly named ponerogenesis. You mustn't focus on it if that doesn't feel right to you 😊

We sure extrapolate our *normal* understanding of human nature beyond the area of its applicability, straight onto individuals whose ticking mechanism is foreign in consequential ways 🤷

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daiva's avatar

🗨 Humans in the developed world, and those parts who sent their leadership to school there, spent a lot of the last two centuries or so attempting to forget everything we have learned about how society and humans work.

In resonance with development levels you delineated, here's a beautifully related child's learning curve shaped by radically different inputs from mom and dad --> The Hearth and the Wild Wood, dochammer.substack.com/p/the-hearth-and-the-wild-wood 👌

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