Harrison, Excellent series from what I’ve seen thus far. Because of other commitments at present I haven’t quite managed to take it all in. To that end in fact I’ll be revisiting each instalment again soon as the series as a whole relates to several projects I'm presently working on. I was particularly taken with the example provided of the estimable Lyndon Baines Johnson (aka LBJ), a man whose personality pathologies I’m very familiar with. I was a good friend of Philip Nelson, the author of what many consider to be the definitive insight into those “pathologies”, and like yourself he was a guest on my TNT radio show when it was running. (Sadly Phil passed away last year). LBJ is without doubt one of the archetypal poster boys of the PPP personality. For readers interested in Mr Nelson’s work, here’s a link. 👀👉 https://lbjthemasterofdeceit.com
Loving the article. Quick tip: Your poster image is clipping off the top. Substack likes a 14 wide by 10 high format. If you expand the background to that format (say with white or black background), your LBJ preview will not be clipped any more. (At least when I last used this hack).
An excellent article! I feel rather shaken because when reading I realised that I have been under attack by such a person, I am indeed being sued by them. It was shocking to see their personality laid out so accurately - I mean every facet! They have no ability to empathise; the particular attack I’m under happened when my husband of thirty years died.
This piece will help me to understand much better what has happened to me over the last year. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for the suggestions. Yes, we had been tenants for eleven years without any problems. The first time we met after he died, she said that if someone died she found it best to pretend that they were still alive! Obviously this alerted me to the fact that all was not well in her head!
The problems arose because I’m not a Codependent Personality and didn’t jump to at her command - I knew the law and was not intimidated and for that I had to be punished. I have moved now and am out of her grasp. Her legal claim is entirely false and she has now asked to meet to come to an agreement out of court which I will refuse; I’m not going anywhere near her, to avoid embarrassment she will have to drop the case.
I guess before reading this article I had never looked at her (or anyone) as a personality type but after reading it, it was as clear as day.
I'll read this all, but you do realize this text from the article quoted as follows:
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"The data indicate those of DP who remain out of prison are more likely to be of higher intelligence and socioeconomic status, have better impulse control capability, and are more adept at creating compelling facades, leading double lives, the ‘dark’ side of which most people are unable and/or unwilling to see, even where there may be subtle or even obvious indicators. The data also indicate higher functioning people of DP engage more effectively in underhanded tactics that prevent exposure and accountability, are better at grooming or manipulating others to support them, and are more likely to harm using methods that are subtle, ongoing and leave no evidence, resulting in emotional and mental ‘torture’ which their targets/victims struggle to recount to others."
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You realize that text could just as well be applied to a deemed "great leader" as to a psychopath? So what makes the difference one ponders? Because a great leader knows those who are in the "midst" - and communication is nuanced.....but I think it is fair to conclude that LBJ was nothing but a big Tejas bully ahole full of himself and full of harm and that is PROVEN - and I don't know about you - but bullies rub me the wrong way and when I confront them or god help me get confronted by them......well, best to not speak of that, but bullies always get their due, and payment is demanded.
I'd like to suggest that there is a thin line betwixt love and hate....
tis nuanced....and now that I'm rambling....I think when the 21st century is imagined in the future - it will be labeled as the "end of bullies" time and I suspect that Polish fella - Andrzej Łobaczewski - would take pleasure in that!
Yes, because many "great leaders" ARE psychopaths. The ones who aren't don't have to create compelling facades, use psychopathic manipulations to groom others, or use emotional torture techniques on others to get their jollies.
Did you know - I'm sure you must - what LBJ - besides the "Kennedy affair" - was involved in when the Liberty ship was attacked by "Israel" in the 1960's?
Your correct he was a definitive bully tejas psycho - I can't stand mother effers like him - and if I was the little guy in the image above - I'd a kicked his balls ferociously and then let the chips fall!
He also reversed JFK's policy of nuclear non-proliferation vis-à-vis Israel almost immediately after taking office. He was sleeping with an Israeli spy named Mathilde Krim at the time of the Liberty.
Wow - it comes as no surprise, but I was unaware of that "tidbit" - it sort of connects some dots I reckon - thanks for sharing that.
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The "Liberty" event is a true travesty so very sad in some ways and so ironic in so many ways - all the way down to the name of the ship whose sailors defended for their lives literally - they were fighting for "liberty" I reckon.
And to think - most folks these days are clueless about that history and with "pathetic apathy" cheer sickly for entities that wish them nothing but harm.....gracious. The world seems full of psychos calling shots and apathetic citizens living conveniently.....that is sad and pathetic.
I'm pretty skeptical of that theory. They found one pussy-faced photo of Castro that looks like Justin Trudeau, but they don't look similar in any others. And you can see a lot of him in his father, Pierre.
Now if you want to see an uncanny resemblance, compare photos of LBJ and Golda Meir!
I recall reading an article about a visit "true to no does" parents made to Cuba, and like momma like son I reckon, and I suspect she had a dalliance with that fella from Cuba and true to no doe was born shortly thereafter.
I could find the article, but who gives a flip a reckon - some things are obvious and that fella is truly not in the interest of the citizens of the maple leaf - he is just another WEF traitor - subsumed and pathetic - an actor - a loser - a child abuser.
If you want backup for this - just say so - I can provide it - but do your own due diligence - and Castro was happy to plant his seed in that dalliance chick thought she could fuck this and that and there would be no consequence.....now the folks living in Canada suffer the outcome of her disregard for scales and balance - Lady Libra scoffs at her and all her dalliances with dicks and others she thought she could wrap herself around.....
Thanks for sharing that.....I saw "true to no does'" brother once in a video a few years ago and seems he had sort of "disavowed" his brother, but that was anecdotal I suppose.
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In response to your query, my focus is peppers, but I have planted two "pawpaw" plants (a type of apple I believe) that will hopefully have fruit in about 7 years or so - there is a crabapple tree on the property, but those little apples are quite sour and are best used in slingshots I've been told (ha, ha).
Yes, and if you’ve read the early Robert Caro volumes on LBJ, Caro documents that Johnson was a physical coward. In one instance when Johnson was a college student he was confronted by another student ready to fight. Johnson laid down on his back in his dorm room bed, flailing his arms and legs like a girl to keep the aggressor away. All the congressman in the photo had to do was to stand up to LBJ in a physically aggressive manner and he would have backed down. Of course a swift kick to the balls would also have been effective.
It's true, and there have been two times in my life when I've had to really get physically confrontational with a bully and in both cases they folded so completely, it was embarrassing. One was half a foot taller than me and the other was a literal bodybuilder and they both turned out to be total cowards.
HOWEVER—and this is why I still contend that antisocial is something different than sociopath or malignant narcissist—I have also known a number of antisocial types who were absolutely NOT cowards. If someone stood up to them they relished the opportunity to do violence. I knew a number of skinheads when I was a teenager and they were not putting on a show, "all bark and no bite". Most people, even tough guys, don't actually want to get in a fight if they can help it, but antisocials do. This is why you DON'T want to stand up to them because they will gladly beat your ass.
Luckily, true antisocials have no 'mask of sanity' and you can figure out pretty quickly who to get the hell away from.
Readers herein might of interest find my 2 part series written on the 50th anniversary of the attack by Israel on the USS Liberty.
In this two part article, I look at the origins and causes of the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states of #Egypt, #Syria, and #Jordan. Within that context we examine the attack by the Israeli Defence Forces (#IDF) during that conflict on the US naval reconnaissance ship the USS Liberty, occasioning the loss of 34 American lives and scores of casualties. To this day, despite well documented, irrefutable evidence it was a deliberate, unprovoked attack, the official position of both the US and Israeli governments is that it was a case of “mistaken identity”.
Along with showcasing one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. military history, it presents us an opportunity to place into broader, now ever more urgent relief, the history of America’s increasingly contentious and counterproductive relationship with Israel, in addition to probing the role of both nations in events unfolding in and across the Greater Middle East.
It further invites us to reexamine the role played in these events by one of America’s most psychopathic and criminally inclined of Oval Officeholders, Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), the man referred to by some as America’s “first Jewish president”. On all counts, author Phillip Nelson’s book “Remember the Liberty: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas” provides us ample context and perspective within which to contemplate all of this and more.
The USS Liberty story is one that’s been close to my heart as a writer for some time. This is largely due to Phil’s work in exposing this war crime. Prior to him publishing his excellent book on the Liberty, I learned about this through his earlier work exposing the dark side of one Lyndon B Johnson, America’s 36th president, in his two volume expose of the man and his peculiar psycho-pathologies.
When time came to publishing his Liberty book, I worked with Phil in the lead up to its release to produce for posterity my own take on the attack and the events in which it occurred. This two parter represents the results of that collaboration. GM
📝 *ARTICLE: Of Treachery, Treason, Terror, and Liberty Forsaken (An American Betrayal) -- Part One: Give us Liberty, or Give us Death
‘Greg, I can’t tell you when I have read a better article about our great ship Liberty and her crew [and] can’t thank you enough for this excellent [piece]…. [All] Americans should read this, read Phil [Nelson]’s book [Remember the Liberty], and [then] demand justice once and for all…...’ — Phillip Tourney, USS Liberty survivor.
📝 ARTICLE: Of Treachery, Treason, Terror, and Liberty Forsaken (An American Betrayal) — Part Two: Power is Where Power Goes, by Greg Maybury |
This is absolutely fantastic - and exactly right for me. I greatly appreciate Ponerology. I've been thinking of those against Reiner Fuellmich, and also against Ed Wackerman. Many people find them hard to understand. Your post puts things together. I will be writing a post, citing this post more than once! (and of course giving links to it).
For me, the point is that this is not a brush-off issue. It's not a problem that we should continue to ignore. These personalities are causing a LOT of problems for the rest of us; doing a LOT of damage. They are not the ONLY problem we have as humans, but they have been a large and continuing problem for us at all social and economic levels for a very long time. As they take (and seek) advantage of modern technologies, their potential for harm only increases.
What my teacher has always been concerned about is that these personalities seek to disrupt or destroy workable technologies. Technologies that people use to understand, to heal, and to be more productive; to survive. As we become more dependent on relatively complex technologies for our daily work and survival, it behooves us to make sure they are protected from alterations that would render them less workable.
I wonder if you've pondered the possibility that this sort of dynamic might emerge in or possess groups of people, without any individual in that group being a PPP (e.g. US State Department)? Or if you know of any research on this? I've seen the documentary called The Corporation, but excellent as it is, I suspect it's a little out of date...
Fascinating about the black eyes, I've seen that myself.
As far as I know there hasn’t been any solid research into that. I’m pretty sure Lobaczewski would say that if such a thing were to happen, such a group would then attract PPPs, but it is more likely that PPPs themselves are responsible for inspiring such a dynamic in the first place.
Not sure I agree. At state level, it's totalitarianism. But a non-totalitarian government can be steered this way and that by a grouping that has become X (some group version of a PPP). Corporations can behave psychopathically, but are they totalitarian? I don't think so. Totalitarian phenomena are akin to mass hypnosis, or extremely large cults. I discern important differences.
That said, I think there are very important similarities in all manifestations, at group and individual levels, when something fanatical and uncompromising takes hold. What's interesting to me is the lone-wolf selfishness of PPP individuals who seem, on my understanding of them, not to give a hoot about ideology. They are more like sick cats who can only derive pleasure from causing harm. A very strange breed. So were this sort of dynamic to possess a group, i.e., the neocons, it would mean there is no particular ideology at play other than a group sense of immutable superiority and a lust for power for its own sake.
I’ve shared my speculations on this in a few articles. Basically, psychopaths can and will “infect” any kind of system, including non-psychopathic “democracies.” But when ponerogenesis takes place, this can lead to totalitarianism, i.e. pathocracy. It doesn’t always happen, but that is the direction it inevitably goes. So you will have some pathocratic features in an infected system, even though it might not reach the levels reached in, say, the communist countries.
Homeowners Associations represent a potential cornucopia for investigating ponerogenesis. There are tens of thousands of them. Within any U.S. state, they all operate under the same controlling legislation. However, some HOAs are scrupulous about adherence to the law that regulates them; others flagrantly violate it, believing apparently that the HOA members whom the DPs on the Board of Directors abuse will not expend the emotional energy and legal costs to demand justice. HOAs offer a "natural experiment" comparison between the normal and the pathocratic. Psychologists and sociologists could get some powerful data from this source.
Having once spent a lot of time with a psychopath who befriended me (at the time I didn't know about psychopaths, but I learned), he told me a lot about himself which later ticked all the boxes for psychopathy. One of the things he told was regarding revenge and how he as a child had often been teased/bullied by the bigger boys. He told me that he always made sure to get revenge. As a consequence he broke the noses of 5-6 boys over the time he was at that school, something he was happy to recount.
And yes, it is such a much needed subject for people to learn about. Thanks again for having started this substack and delved deeply into it.
Since most people don't even know what that means, probably not a lot.
But it's a different matter when a DP purposefully goes about slandering and demonizing a victim in the eyes of others (usually close associates or at least in the direct sphere of influence of the victim). In that case, he can ruin that person's life, not because the label itself has much of an effect, but because the DP is able to convince a bunch of people that the victim is responsible for a whole bunch of things he isn't in fact responsible for, using a host of subtle and not so subtle manipulation tactics.
DPs are also expert at convincing others that their victims are "crazy," usually be provoking them to act erratically and emotionally. Only the victim knows what's going on; everyone else gets taken in by the expert liar.
I read the rest - I think the images tell a 1000 words better.
I mean one can try to characterize behavior that leads to families dysfunctional - but an image is a better way to share sentiment. And I ask this - over the last couple centuries what is the ratio of "dysfunctional families"? That is a fair question - anybody studied that?
So for all I know I'm a psycho - and maybe I am - but at the end of the day, I ascribe to the fundamental idea of any religion - anybody trying to get along - and that simply is - "do no harm".
But there is so much nuance to this concept in a world where others don't concur with such thought process, and then in an act of defense those of us stout and resolute defend principle.
I hope to be on one of the Saturday calls before too long - but really the images in this article speak to one of the worst bullies ever - called "LBJ" - and to think he was sleeping with some chick out of Israel when the Liberty even occurred in 1960's. I can't stand tejas bullies - that state ought be split into five!
Not kidding around - 😒 - breaks my heart to type this - it ought be evident....it ought be common knowledge.
So propaganda tis powerful - but an images speaks 1000 words and LBJ was a true bully effing tejas asshole who ought been kicked in the balls - in the "johnson" so to speak - kicked down for the good of the rest of us got principle and have no desire to escalate war......so LBJ if you were in front of me just now - I'd beat the shit out of you - kick you in the balls - and say - look now at all the harm you have caused - repent you sob - otherwise - spend your life in hell.
Exactly. No one believes the victim of this type of person. Thus, exacerbating the torture and increasing the isolation of a victim.
Harrison, Excellent series from what I’ve seen thus far. Because of other commitments at present I haven’t quite managed to take it all in. To that end in fact I’ll be revisiting each instalment again soon as the series as a whole relates to several projects I'm presently working on. I was particularly taken with the example provided of the estimable Lyndon Baines Johnson (aka LBJ), a man whose personality pathologies I’m very familiar with. I was a good friend of Philip Nelson, the author of what many consider to be the definitive insight into those “pathologies”, and like yourself he was a guest on my TNT radio show when it was running. (Sadly Phil passed away last year). LBJ is without doubt one of the archetypal poster boys of the PPP personality. For readers interested in Mr Nelson’s work, here’s a link. 👀👉 https://lbjthemasterofdeceit.com
Loving the article. Quick tip: Your poster image is clipping off the top. Substack likes a 14 wide by 10 high format. If you expand the background to that format (say with white or black background), your LBJ preview will not be clipped any more. (At least when I last used this hack).
Thanks, I replaced the preview image with a cropped version.
An excellent article! I feel rather shaken because when reading I realised that I have been under attack by such a person, I am indeed being sued by them. It was shocking to see their personality laid out so accurately - I mean every facet! They have no ability to empathise; the particular attack I’m under happened when my husband of thirty years died.
This piece will help me to understand much better what has happened to me over the last year. Thank you 🙏🏻
Sorry to hear that, Susan. There’s more to come, so hopefully you’ll get even more insight as the series progresses.
Thank you for the suggestions. Yes, we had been tenants for eleven years without any problems. The first time we met after he died, she said that if someone died she found it best to pretend that they were still alive! Obviously this alerted me to the fact that all was not well in her head!
The problems arose because I’m not a Codependent Personality and didn’t jump to at her command - I knew the law and was not intimidated and for that I had to be punished. I have moved now and am out of her grasp. Her legal claim is entirely false and she has now asked to meet to come to an agreement out of court which I will refuse; I’m not going anywhere near her, to avoid embarrassment she will have to drop the case.
I guess before reading this article I had never looked at her (or anyone) as a personality type but after reading it, it was as clear as day.
I'll read this all, but you do realize this text from the article quoted as follows:
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"The data indicate those of DP who remain out of prison are more likely to be of higher intelligence and socioeconomic status, have better impulse control capability, and are more adept at creating compelling facades, leading double lives, the ‘dark’ side of which most people are unable and/or unwilling to see, even where there may be subtle or even obvious indicators. The data also indicate higher functioning people of DP engage more effectively in underhanded tactics that prevent exposure and accountability, are better at grooming or manipulating others to support them, and are more likely to harm using methods that are subtle, ongoing and leave no evidence, resulting in emotional and mental ‘torture’ which their targets/victims struggle to recount to others."
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You realize that text could just as well be applied to a deemed "great leader" as to a psychopath? So what makes the difference one ponders? Because a great leader knows those who are in the "midst" - and communication is nuanced.....but I think it is fair to conclude that LBJ was nothing but a big Tejas bully ahole full of himself and full of harm and that is PROVEN - and I don't know about you - but bullies rub me the wrong way and when I confront them or god help me get confronted by them......well, best to not speak of that, but bullies always get their due, and payment is demanded.
I'd like to suggest that there is a thin line betwixt love and hate....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXwowpeZlcg
tis nuanced....and now that I'm rambling....I think when the 21st century is imagined in the future - it will be labeled as the "end of bullies" time and I suspect that Polish fella - Andrzej Łobaczewski - would take pleasure in that!
So hopefully it comes to be.
Regards,
BK
Yes, because many "great leaders" ARE psychopaths. The ones who aren't don't have to create compelling facades, use psychopathic manipulations to groom others, or use emotional torture techniques on others to get their jollies.
LBJ was a legit psychopath.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Handbook_of_Psychopathy_First_Edition/OuNdrmHcJlgC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lyndon+johnson+psychopathy&pg=PA11&printsec=frontcover
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373217294_LBJ_The_Great_The_good_the_bad_and_the_ugly_perverse_sadistic_psychopathic_and_hyperkinetic_First_Draft
Did you know - I'm sure you must - what LBJ - besides the "Kennedy affair" - was involved in when the Liberty ship was attacked by "Israel" in the 1960's?
Your correct he was a definitive bully tejas psycho - I can't stand mother effers like him - and if I was the little guy in the image above - I'd a kicked his balls ferociously and then let the chips fall!
(ha, ha.....
Ken
ps - I downloaded the one link - thanks for that.
Yeah, Johnson deserved more than a handful of swift kicks in the johnson.
He also reversed JFK's policy of nuclear non-proliferation vis-à-vis Israel almost immediately after taking office. He was sleeping with an Israeli spy named Mathilde Krim at the time of the Liberty.
Wow - it comes as no surprise, but I was unaware of that "tidbit" - it sort of connects some dots I reckon - thanks for sharing that.
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The "Liberty" event is a true travesty so very sad in some ways and so ironic in so many ways - all the way down to the name of the ship whose sailors defended for their lives literally - they were fighting for "liberty" I reckon.
And to think - most folks these days are clueless about that history and with "pathetic apathy" cheer sickly for entities that wish them nothing but harm.....gracious. The world seems full of psychos calling shots and apathetic citizens living conveniently.....that is sad and pathetic.
BK
I'm pretty skeptical of that theory. They found one pussy-faced photo of Castro that looks like Justin Trudeau, but they don't look similar in any others. And you can see a lot of him in his father, Pierre.
Now if you want to see an uncanny resemblance, compare photos of LBJ and Golda Meir!
I recall reading an article about a visit "true to no does" parents made to Cuba, and like momma like son I reckon, and I suspect she had a dalliance with that fella from Cuba and true to no doe was born shortly thereafter.
I could find the article, but who gives a flip a reckon - some things are obvious and that fella is truly not in the interest of the citizens of the maple leaf - he is just another WEF traitor - subsumed and pathetic - an actor - a loser - a child abuser.
If you want backup for this - just say so - I can provide it - but do your own due diligence - and Castro was happy to plant his seed in that dalliance chick thought she could fuck this and that and there would be no consequence.....now the folks living in Canada suffer the outcome of her disregard for scales and balance - Lady Libra scoffs at her and all her dalliances with dicks and others she thought she could wrap herself around.....
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how you like them apples?
BK
A.
Thanks for sharing that.....I saw "true to no does'" brother once in a video a few years ago and seems he had sort of "disavowed" his brother, but that was anecdotal I suppose.
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In response to your query, my focus is peppers, but I have planted two "pawpaw" plants (a type of apple I believe) that will hopefully have fruit in about 7 years or so - there is a crabapple tree on the property, but those little apples are quite sour and are best used in slingshots I've been told (ha, ha).
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Regards,
BK
Yes, and if you’ve read the early Robert Caro volumes on LBJ, Caro documents that Johnson was a physical coward. In one instance when Johnson was a college student he was confronted by another student ready to fight. Johnson laid down on his back in his dorm room bed, flailing his arms and legs like a girl to keep the aggressor away. All the congressman in the photo had to do was to stand up to LBJ in a physically aggressive manner and he would have backed down. Of course a swift kick to the balls would also have been effective.
It's true, and there have been two times in my life when I've had to really get physically confrontational with a bully and in both cases they folded so completely, it was embarrassing. One was half a foot taller than me and the other was a literal bodybuilder and they both turned out to be total cowards.
HOWEVER—and this is why I still contend that antisocial is something different than sociopath or malignant narcissist—I have also known a number of antisocial types who were absolutely NOT cowards. If someone stood up to them they relished the opportunity to do violence. I knew a number of skinheads when I was a teenager and they were not putting on a show, "all bark and no bite". Most people, even tough guys, don't actually want to get in a fight if they can help it, but antisocials do. This is why you DON'T want to stand up to them because they will gladly beat your ass.
Luckily, true antisocials have no 'mask of sanity' and you can figure out pretty quickly who to get the hell away from.
Readers herein might of interest find my 2 part series written on the 50th anniversary of the attack by Israel on the USS Liberty.
In this two part article, I look at the origins and causes of the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states of #Egypt, #Syria, and #Jordan. Within that context we examine the attack by the Israeli Defence Forces (#IDF) during that conflict on the US naval reconnaissance ship the USS Liberty, occasioning the loss of 34 American lives and scores of casualties. To this day, despite well documented, irrefutable evidence it was a deliberate, unprovoked attack, the official position of both the US and Israeli governments is that it was a case of “mistaken identity”.
Along with showcasing one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. military history, it presents us an opportunity to place into broader, now ever more urgent relief, the history of America’s increasingly contentious and counterproductive relationship with Israel, in addition to probing the role of both nations in events unfolding in and across the Greater Middle East.
It further invites us to reexamine the role played in these events by one of America’s most psychopathic and criminally inclined of Oval Officeholders, Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), the man referred to by some as America’s “first Jewish president”. On all counts, author Phillip Nelson’s book “Remember the Liberty: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas” provides us ample context and perspective within which to contemplate all of this and more.
The USS Liberty story is one that’s been close to my heart as a writer for some time. This is largely due to Phil’s work in exposing this war crime. Prior to him publishing his excellent book on the Liberty, I learned about this through his earlier work exposing the dark side of one Lyndon B Johnson, America’s 36th president, in his two volume expose of the man and his peculiar psycho-pathologies.
When time came to publishing his Liberty book, I worked with Phil in the lead up to its release to produce for posterity my own take on the attack and the events in which it occurred. This two parter represents the results of that collaboration. GM
📝 *ARTICLE: Of Treachery, Treason, Terror, and Liberty Forsaken (An American Betrayal) -- Part One: Give us Liberty, or Give us Death
👀👉🔗 https://gregmaybury.substack.com/p/of-treachery-treason-terror-truth
‘Greg, I can’t tell you when I have read a better article about our great ship Liberty and her crew [and] can’t thank you enough for this excellent [piece]…. [All] Americans should read this, read Phil [Nelson]’s book [Remember the Liberty], and [then] demand justice once and for all…...’ — Phillip Tourney, USS Liberty survivor.
📝 ARTICLE: Of Treachery, Treason, Terror, and Liberty Forsaken (An American Betrayal) — Part Two: Power is Where Power Goes, by Greg Maybury |
👀👉🔗 https://tinyurl.com/5amkc3t6
I will offer the following story for consideration: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ndp-jagmeet-singh-parliament-protesters-video-1.7326073
Good eyes.
This is absolutely fantastic - and exactly right for me. I greatly appreciate Ponerology. I've been thinking of those against Reiner Fuellmich, and also against Ed Wackerman. Many people find them hard to understand. Your post puts things together. I will be writing a post, citing this post more than once! (and of course giving links to it).
You clearly have a lot of knowledge in this area.
Agreed.
So David Icke's "Lizard people under a human disguise" may be metaphorically closer to the truth than we might first give credit for...
Yeah, the bottom right pic of LBJ gives me definite lizard vibes!
Yes, I am a bit of aficionado of Porges too e.g.. https://garysharpe.substack.com/p/the-divided-brain-and-the-asymmetric
Your rendition / analysis seems quite accurate.
For me, the point is that this is not a brush-off issue. It's not a problem that we should continue to ignore. These personalities are causing a LOT of problems for the rest of us; doing a LOT of damage. They are not the ONLY problem we have as humans, but they have been a large and continuing problem for us at all social and economic levels for a very long time. As they take (and seek) advantage of modern technologies, their potential for harm only increases.
What my teacher has always been concerned about is that these personalities seek to disrupt or destroy workable technologies. Technologies that people use to understand, to heal, and to be more productive; to survive. As we become more dependent on relatively complex technologies for our daily work and survival, it behooves us to make sure they are protected from alterations that would render them less workable.
Now we are getting to some of the real issues…
A fascinating and valuable article, thank you.
I wonder if you've pondered the possibility that this sort of dynamic might emerge in or possess groups of people, without any individual in that group being a PPP (e.g. US State Department)? Or if you know of any research on this? I've seen the documentary called The Corporation, but excellent as it is, I suspect it's a little out of date...
Fascinating about the black eyes, I've seen that myself.
As far as I know there hasn’t been any solid research into that. I’m pretty sure Lobaczewski would say that if such a thing were to happen, such a group would then attract PPPs, but it is more likely that PPPs themselves are responsible for inspiring such a dynamic in the first place.
Not sure I agree. At state level, it's totalitarianism. But a non-totalitarian government can be steered this way and that by a grouping that has become X (some group version of a PPP). Corporations can behave psychopathically, but are they totalitarian? I don't think so. Totalitarian phenomena are akin to mass hypnosis, or extremely large cults. I discern important differences.
That said, I think there are very important similarities in all manifestations, at group and individual levels, when something fanatical and uncompromising takes hold. What's interesting to me is the lone-wolf selfishness of PPP individuals who seem, on my understanding of them, not to give a hoot about ideology. They are more like sick cats who can only derive pleasure from causing harm. A very strange breed. So were this sort of dynamic to possess a group, i.e., the neocons, it would mean there is no particular ideology at play other than a group sense of immutable superiority and a lust for power for its own sake.
Just thinking out loud.
I’ve shared my speculations on this in a few articles. Basically, psychopaths can and will “infect” any kind of system, including non-psychopathic “democracies.” But when ponerogenesis takes place, this can lead to totalitarianism, i.e. pathocracy. It doesn’t always happen, but that is the direction it inevitably goes. So you will have some pathocratic features in an infected system, even though it might not reach the levels reached in, say, the communist countries.
Yep, the way Lobaczewski puts it is that the dynamics of evil are the same at every level.
Homeowners Associations represent a potential cornucopia for investigating ponerogenesis. There are tens of thousands of them. Within any U.S. state, they all operate under the same controlling legislation. However, some HOAs are scrupulous about adherence to the law that regulates them; others flagrantly violate it, believing apparently that the HOA members whom the DPs on the Board of Directors abuse will not expend the emotional energy and legal costs to demand justice. HOAs offer a "natural experiment" comparison between the normal and the pathocratic. Psychologists and sociologists could get some powerful data from this source.
Can you recommend any source literature on this?
Having once spent a lot of time with a psychopath who befriended me (at the time I didn't know about psychopaths, but I learned), he told me a lot about himself which later ticked all the boxes for psychopathy. One of the things he told was regarding revenge and how he as a child had often been teased/bullied by the bigger boys. He told me that he always made sure to get revenge. As a consequence he broke the noses of 5-6 boys over the time he was at that school, something he was happy to recount.
And yes, it is such a much needed subject for people to learn about. Thanks again for having started this substack and delved deeply into it.
What happens when a man casts another as a DP mistakenly, and then begins to share that appraisal with others?
Since most people don't even know what that means, probably not a lot.
But it's a different matter when a DP purposefully goes about slandering and demonizing a victim in the eyes of others (usually close associates or at least in the direct sphere of influence of the victim). In that case, he can ruin that person's life, not because the label itself has much of an effect, but because the DP is able to convince a bunch of people that the victim is responsible for a whole bunch of things he isn't in fact responsible for, using a host of subtle and not so subtle manipulation tactics.
DPs are also expert at convincing others that their victims are "crazy," usually be provoking them to act erratically and emotionally. Only the victim knows what's going on; everyone else gets taken in by the expert liar.
Bill Gates is S ticking these boxes
I read the rest - I think the images tell a 1000 words better.
I mean one can try to characterize behavior that leads to families dysfunctional - but an image is a better way to share sentiment. And I ask this - over the last couple centuries what is the ratio of "dysfunctional families"? That is a fair question - anybody studied that?
So for all I know I'm a psycho - and maybe I am - but at the end of the day, I ascribe to the fundamental idea of any religion - anybody trying to get along - and that simply is - "do no harm".
But there is so much nuance to this concept in a world where others don't concur with such thought process, and then in an act of defense those of us stout and resolute defend principle.
I hope to be on one of the Saturday calls before too long - but really the images in this article speak to one of the worst bullies ever - called "LBJ" - and to think he was sleeping with some chick out of Israel when the Liberty even occurred in 1960's. I can't stand tejas bullies - that state ought be split into five!
Not kidding around - 😒 - breaks my heart to type this - it ought be evident....it ought be common knowledge.
So propaganda tis powerful - but an images speaks 1000 words and LBJ was a true bully effing tejas asshole who ought been kicked in the balls - in the "johnson" so to speak - kicked down for the good of the rest of us got principle and have no desire to escalate war......so LBJ if you were in front of me just now - I'd beat the shit out of you - kick you in the balls - and say - look now at all the harm you have caused - repent you sob - otherwise - spend your life in hell.
Ken