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Workshop Session 20: Ideology and Immunity

Next week: Final session!
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In this session we covered the final two sections of Chapter 9, covering the topics of ideologies and immunity in the context of world therapy. Specific points of discussion include:

  • how should a former pathocracy approach the ideology under which they have lived?

  • ideology should be analyzed in terms of its original form and its pathocratic caricature, even if its original form was ponerogenic – in order to discern its actual strengths and weaknesses

  • criticism of ideology is important, but should always take a back seat to understanding its use as a Trojan horse for pathocratic motivations; simply criticizing its errors does not rob it of its actual function (take note, theorycels)

  • all nineteenth-century political ideologies oversimplified human nature and social reality, not just communism

  • there’s how a system is supposed to work, and then there is the influence of ponerogenic networks who derail its operation

  • the pros and cons of professionals diagnosing leaders (and foreign personalities)

  • should only heads of state be screened for psychopathy, or individuals on all social levels?

  • pathocracy disrupts the natural life cycle of ideologies, and the creative and evolutionary role of human common sense and experience that refines them; and prompts a polarized and exaggerated reaction to the deformed (and stunted) version of the ideology

  • the danger of following into the pathocratic “semantic trap” even once, which degrades one’s ability to think (i.e., don’t use their words)

  • the bad officers in Sharpe (starring Sean Bean) as examples of pathological egotism, and Sharpe’s reaction to them as an example of immunization

  • how therapy, especially in the form of simply conveying basic truths, can provide a form of this immunization

  • such immunization strengthens the natural immunity gained by people living under pathocracy, and creates a form of artificial immunity for those who lack the experience

  • and more

The next, and final, session will take place on Saturday, May 4, at 12:30 pm EDT (9:30 am PDT). There will be no session this weekend.

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