[Arktwo] Ponerology - Part One

[Bruce Beach]

Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Psalms 37:11
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the
abundance of peace.

NE3 12:5
And blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

D&C 88:17 ... the poor and the meek of the earth shall inherit it.

If the meek are going to inherit
and run the earth
then we are going to have to change
the social system.

Ponerology is the study of why today -
the world is largely run by the evil.

Understanding the nature of human governors requires understanding the
nature of human souls and the nature of soul itself. While the full nature
of the soul is beyond the comprehension of man there are some things that we
can know about it.

Without going into a lengthy exposition on the variety of human souls we can
say that the two primary and defining characteristics of all non-damaged
human souls are free will and wisdom.

Human souls, like human bodies and human minds, are subject to
contingencies, both external and self-imposed. Each have a range and variety
of characteristics that may be inherited, conditioned by their environment,
or trained through intentional discipline.

Ideally, society needs to be governed by highly capable souls that have been
excellently disciplined in traits such as meekness, trustworthiness, social
consciousness, analytic thought, tolerance, compassion, sacrifice,
dedication, and a wide variety of other virtues.

Unfortunately, the present day systems attract and reward many of the very
opposite virtues. Primarily the present systems are designed to promote
persons of ambition who are willing to compromise any of the aforementioned
virtues in order to achieve their goals.

Ambition too can be a virtue, but it is the opposite virtue of meekness and
it is meekness that we wish to have in leaders. To be meek does not mean to
be weak. Indeed, it often takes much stronger qualities of character to be
meek, rather than to be ambitious.

Ambition is a quality of the self. Strong self-will is its defining
characteristic. It is a misnomer and would be paradoxical to say that one's
ambition was to be meek and to particularly cultivate the characteristics
associated with meekness.

Nevertheless, ambition and self-will, in order to achieve its goals often
chameleon-like seeks to take on the coloration of meekness and its
associated virtues. In its extreme manifestations this strategy is nothing
but pure hypocrisy.

Disciplined meekness, as compared to a natural mildness, subservience, and
ineffective passiveness, requires an intentional willingness for
self-sacrifice, devotion to an external ideal, and submission to recognized
higher authority.

These latter qualities are very often counterfeited and exhibited in the
extreme by those who are most motivated by ambition. To a large degree, this
is what makes it difficult to prevent their assumption and monopolization of
power.

Those who are ambitious, seek power. Those who are meek will, out of duty,
accept the responsibility of power, only if it is thrust upon them. Thus it
is, that in the present system of things, the world is controlled by the
ambitious, and the meek are ineffective.

Meekness is the desired spiritual achievement in this world. In its ultimate
manifestation, meekness is complete submission to the Will of God. The goal
of the ambitious is total achievement of their self-will rather than God's
will. That by definition is evil, and since the world is ruled by the
ambitious it is ruled by the evil, that is to say by evil.

Before we proceed further to the remedy it is best that we further
understand the present state of affairs and how it came to be that the evil
rule the world.

The evil are souls that have turned from God. This does not mean that they
do not wear the trappings of being very religious because oftentimes they
do. Sometimes these trappings are intentional hypocrisy but more often they
are the result of self-deception.

In some sense all souls rest somewhere on a spectrum of from the most
saintly to the most satanic. If you will, the usual Bell curve
configuration. Most of us reside somewhere in the predominate hump in the
middle. The group that we are concerned about reside at the satanic end of
the spectrum. They are what we may call damaged souls.

Damaged souls come in a great variety. First let us consider those that are
damaged, or more often we say handicapped, in regards to that aspect of the
soul that we call wisdom. These can be a variety of different types of
mental handicaps - often identified by what we call mental retardation or
lower intelligent quotient.

The mentally damaged soul need not, and most often does not, exhibit that
quality of evil that concerns us here. Indeed, despite their handicap they
may move upwards along the spectrum towards saintliness.

The damaged souls that we are concerned with here are those who are damaged
in the other defining characteristic of the soul and that is in their will.
Should an individual be unfortunately damaged in both areas they become
ineffectual criminals of low intelligence who are easily identified by
society and are summarily dealt with. Every society has prisons and other
care taking institutions full of them.

We may now examine the damaged souls that we are concerned about -
as a sub-spectrum. Clinically, these damaged souls would be identified as
being sociopaths at the upper end and autistics at the  lower. Once again,
after a brief description, we will dispense with the lower portion of this
spectrum because the autistics do not become controllers of the society.

Autistics affect a milder form of the malady. Theirs is more of a spiritual
blindness. They simply do not have the emotional conscience of empathy for
the deeper spiritual virtues. This does not mean they cannot be positive
contributors to society. Some perform very well in society because they are
able to focus on the logical intellectual functionings of the soul without
being distracted by the emotional ones.

We are now left with the small fraction of the members of society that we
identify here as being the sociopaths. They have fully functioning
intellects and are often, in fact most often, able to disguise their true
nature. They often make substantial contributions to society because in
their intense desire to achieve their ambitions they make monumental efforts
to perform and conform. That can all be very good and the argument is not
that we don't want them in society - because a society needs to provide a
place for all. We simply do not want them in charge of society.

But, in the present system of things, these sociopaths, these evil persons,
evil because they want their will rather than God's Will, always end up in
control of society and we will next examine how it is that comes to be.

It would appear obvious that in the present system that in a competition
between those who desired to achieve a position of power and those who were
indifferent to achieving a position of power that it would be the former
that would be successful. Therefore, the ambitious and evil would succeed
and the meek would be pushed aside.

The odds are even more determined than that. The ambitious are selected and
the meek are eliminated by those already in control. Now, mind you, the
ambitious, in order to achieve their goals, have to exhibit and demonstrate
qualities of submissiveness, loyalty, team playing, insightfulness,
competitiveness, apparent social virtues of honesty, industriousness, social
graces, attractive appearance and a record of achievement. The successful
sociopath is anything but a misfit. He provides the image of a conformist
par-excellence.

Not only does the successful sociopath become adept at identifying and
conforming to what is expected of him, he also becomes adept at identifying
those who have the same sociopathic qualities. Nothing that he does, or
permits, is allowed to fall outside of the pattern. If he wears a different
color tie, it is because he is conforming to the need to demonstrate
'independence'. No room for a true non-conformist here.

Hence it is that in every power facet of society, business, political,
legal, academia, military, and yes - even institutional religion, those that
hold the reigns of power are often evil sociopaths. That they are honoured,
admired, thought of as being the pillars of society - does not change the
fact.

Holding the reigns of power they identify, control and promote those who
have the same outlook on life that they do. People that they would say have
the same realistic, bottom line view of the real world that they do. It is
for this reason that you can go into any of the above named institutions and
from top to bottom you will find that all either already think alike - or
are being conditioned to think alike. If they don't - they will soon be out.

I could go into the specifics of the thought patterns and values of the
corporations, the banks, the legal field, academia, the scientific
community, the military, the religious organizations, and so forth. They may
differ in goals but they will not differ in method.

This reality is because those at the top have arrived there through ambition
and have established a top down selection process. This is equally true of
all present earthly societies. It makes no difference whether you are in
China, Russia, the United States, or anywhere else - it is the evil
sociopaths, no matter how highly acclaimed and honored they may be, that
will be in control.

I could dwell on this subject in a book length format but I have made the
point. If you accept that point and wish to know the remedy then I shall
present that in Part Two. I do not know if people will be receptive to this
subject and wish to hear more. For that I shall have to wait and see.

Peace and love,
Bruce
DawnSayer@webpal.org