Pathocracy /kieselguhr, jeshimon,

[mikebailey]

worth it for the word "ponerology" alone (-;


On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Glenn Scheper wrote:

> is addressed in terms of pathological deviance. In any society, there is a small
> percentage of deviant individuals who seek power over others. In a society, set

if it can be counted on that they are there, then is it deviancy or
normal diversity?  isn't the main problem not the "seeking of control over
others" but the abandonment of ethics in attaining it?

>   -- http://www.signs-of-the-times.org/signs/editorials/signs20061103_TheBushesandTheLostKing.php
>

this treads perilously close to anti-semitism, which is a shame because
a lot of good points are brought out.  clearly the author is pro-Kennedy, so he
deals lightly with the problems of the Kennedy legacy (the drugs, the
womanizing, the bootlegging, the Mafia ties, the election fraud) but brings
out some very constructive actions planned by Kennedy (I wasn't aware of the
move to end exemption of taxes on Liberian ships, something which would have
slowed the decline of the American shipping industry perhaps)

the castigation of international bankers is something that I readily
concur with, but the phrase "most of whom are Jewish" worries me; also
the idea of an ineradicable "deviancy" seems to assume there is no
forgiveness nor change possible for this class of person...dangerous
assumption - besides being pessimistic, it excludes most peacable
plans from the discourse, and sets up a "problem/solution" scenario
not so different from those the article describes being enacted in
the country clubs of power.

ergo, the "nation of laws not men" is abandoned as being a tool of
the evildoers when in reality good people daily contend for control of the
levers of power (and even the bad actors sometimes show a spark of kindness)

this is the mistake Webb made, I think - ceding his belief in the
possibility of control of power to the evildoers, which put him in a
world spiraling toward Hell, and led him to believe he was justified in
abandoning ethics for his reponse.
all of which brought him to Jeshimon...

I don't think identifying Webb with Kieselguhr is a slam dunk.
He doesn't appear to be particularly fluent, so how could the letters
come from him (unless they were ghost-written by Moss?) - but also
the letters mention specific malefactors, while Webb's dynamiting
as shown by the attack on the train has no clear targets.