More Excerpts: All the evidence points to the fact that war, violence, and the killing of innocents is part of who we are as a species.

But what if the initial assumptions are wrong? (...)

We ask again. What if our initial assumptions are wrong? What if this violence we see all around us does not come from within us, from within people of conscience, but comes from another source?

What if the evil we see around us in the world is not born from human nature? (...)

dynamics of psychopathic political systems, suggests very strongly that everything we "know" about the dark side of human nature is wrong, (...)

Could it really be that these horrors that we live with on the nightly news, that...

More Excerpts: All the evidence points to the fact that war, violence, and the killing of innocents is part of who we are as a species.

But what if the initial assumptions are wrong? (...)

We ask again. What if our initial assumptions are wrong? What if this violence we see all around us does not come from within us, from within people of conscience, but comes from another source?

What if the evil we see around us in the world is not born from human nature? (...)

dynamics of psychopathic political systems, suggests very strongly that everything we "know" about the dark side of human nature is wrong, (...)

Could it really be that these horrors that we live with on the nightly news, that we read about in history books, that have always been with us and which seem such an integral part of human life, are not a necessary component of life? That they are injected into our lives through a parasite/predator in our midst? One that moves invisibly within society?

More Excerpts: An in-depth understanding of psychopathy and ponerology brings the realization that the violence around us is not an instrinic part of who we are. It is an intrinsic part of who they are.

Having potentially identified the true source of evil doesn't mean that it can be easily eradicated. Obviously, there are no easy solutions. It is way too late for easy solutions.

However, instead of constantly fighting against the branches, we can begin to strike at the root. (...)

If the psychopaths who rule our societies and who deform our understanding of ourselves can eventually be isolated, human history might well embark on a completely different path.

If that was understood, would...

More Excerpts: An in-depth understanding of psychopathy and ponerology brings the realization that the violence around us is not an instrinic part of who we are. It is an intrinsic part of who they are.

Having potentially identified the true source of evil doesn't mean that it can be easily eradicated. Obviously, there are no easy solutions. It is way too late for easy solutions.

However, instead of constantly fighting against the branches, we can begin to strike at the root. (...)

If the psychopaths who rule our societies and who deform our understanding of ourselves can eventually be isolated, human history might well embark on a completely different path.

If that was understood, would it not be a powerful motivating force for people of conscience? (...)

Imagine being able to give this as an explanation for why a "conspiracy" like the US/Israeli attacks on 9/11 were able to come off successfully. How often do you hear that it is impossible because "someone would have talked"? That answer is based upon the idea that those who carried it out are like you and me.

They aren't. (...)

Yes, there can be groups of people working together even over centuries to accomplish goals. (...)

They know it is a question of "us or them" (...)

The rest of us have yet to awaken to this fact. (...)

More Excerpts: Imagine being able to kill for the hell of it. Imagine having no remorse. Ever. No feelings of guilt. Ever. Imagine being able to kill, lie, cheat, and manipulate and never have a second thought. And imagine what such a world would look like, how horrible it would be to inhabit.

That is our world under pathocratic domination.

If it appears on the macroscopic scale in international relations, it also exists in our daily lives. We tend to give the benefit of the doubt to others for bad behaviour and project onto them our own ways of thinking and behaving. We say "He must be stressed", or "She had a rough childhood". (...)

So the first step on our way out of this world of hor...

More Excerpts: Imagine being able to kill for the hell of it. Imagine having no remorse. Ever. No feelings of guilt. Ever. Imagine being able to kill, lie, cheat, and manipulate and never have a second thought. And imagine what such a world would look like, how horrible it would be to inhabit.

That is our world under pathocratic domination.

If it appears on the macroscopic scale in international relations, it also exists in our daily lives. We tend to give the benefit of the doubt to others for bad behaviour and project onto them our own ways of thinking and behaving. We say "He must be stressed", or "She had a rough childhood". (...)

So the first step on our way out of this world of horrors is to learn to distinguish between those people who may be a little off some days because they are stressed and those are are that way because that is who they are. The first step is to learn to identify the psychopaths around us, those deviants who are in our lives and who are running our world.