Truth vs Falsehood (47 page)

The conditions prior to a war exhibit poised, interrelated, complicated positions, tensions, and a complexity of factors that are beyond intellectual comprehension, such as timing and weighting of factions. Thus, early diagnosis can stop the locomotion of war before it gains unstoppable momentum. However, at each succeeding moment, there is again a new critical point accessible to intervention so that in a time series of events, a series of diagnosable, correlated critical-factor points of opportunity present themselves in sequence. Thus, as applied to World War II, the entire war was easily stoppable at minimal cost or risk at the point of Hitler’s first invasion of the Rhineland, Sudentland, and Czechoslovakia. (His intention calibrated at level 100.)

Notable is that nations such as Russia, Germany, Japan, and even Belgium all have effective, well-developed intelligence operations at calibration level 210-215, while the U. S. intelligence was defective (cal. level 190) until it decoded the Japanese JM Code.

The only technique available that is also pragmatic and identifiable is by means of consciousness calibration research because the field of consciousness is all-inclusive, and each instant integrates all factors and influences, condensing them into a specific, identifiable numerical factor. The implications of the above analysis go beyond just this obvious and crucial exhibit. This is now a world where all stands revealed and where there are no more secrets that can be hidden in order to blindside the innocent.

As will be seen, although prior to World War II, Neville Chamberlain’s intention was virtuous (cal. 500), because of denial, naïveté, and lack of ‘hard headed’ reality testing, his capability was devastatingly poor (cal. 140). Hitler’s intention calibrated at 90, his capability, unfortunately for Europe, was at 450. From this and other illustrations to follow, the patterns that spell serious damage to the world become apparent:

1.  Good intention but defective capability (e.g., the present United Nations).

2.   Malignant intention but poor capability (e.g., North Korea).

3.   Malignant intention plus high capability (e.g., Cold-War Russia).

4.   Malignant intention plus high capability, plus malignant messianic totalitarianism (e.g., Stalin, Hitler).

Similarly, the calibrated levels of the elements of World War II quickly reveal the whole story:

1.   Weak position of denial by Secretary of War Stimson (refused intelligence reports). Denial calibrates at 190.

2.   Weak positions of Neville Chamberlain and pacifists. (Pacifism calibrates at 195.)

3.   Pathological calibrations (diagnoses) of Hitler, Mussolini, and Japanese positions and their intentions.

4.   Lack of military intelligence (cal. 190) prior to Pearl Harbor despite warnings. Discontinuance of code breaking (later resumed by President Roosevelt).

5.   Failure to diagnose the Third Reich, Stalin’s megalomania, the caliber of Gen. Rommel, the Luftwaffe, etc.

6.   Weakness and the low calibration of the League of Nations (cal. 185).

7.   Failure to diagnose double agents who revealed atomic secrets to Russia and thereby precipitated the Cold War.

The threat to national security and world peace that is the consequence of faulty philosophies and political views that calibrate below 200 is starkly revealed by the impact on world history of the espionage agents who infiltrated the atomic nuclear research facilities in both the United States and Britain. Security lapses, in retrospect, are somewhat appalling but not too dissimilar from more recent events and current security lapses (as yet undetected). Note that “blindsided” and “caught off guard” calibrate at 180.

Any top security activities, of course, attract the world’s best spies. Los Alamos and the Manhattan Project, as would be expected, attracted Klaus Fuchs (cal. 115), Harold Philby (cal. 110), William Joyce (cal. 100), the Rosenburgs, and Ted Hall, as well as a group made up of Martin Sobel, Harry Gold, Donald McLain (The Cambridge Five), etc.

All the members of the group were Marxists, and Stalin spoke kindly of these “martyrs.” The spread of that ideology into Hollywood and intellectuals in the State Department fueled the McCarthy hearings. The major downside was the Cold War, international competition, and nuclear buildup, the fear of which supported the ideological basis for the Iraqi war. Today’s nuclear jeopardy is thus the aftermath of the intellectually ‘elite’ of their own generation. That same pathologic defect continues to weaken detection of the sources of danger to current society (calibrates as ‘true’).

In this and other wars (including the Iraqi war), preceding events are nearly identical: a megalomaniac leader propagandizes their populace to militancy while the intended victim goes into denial with faulty intelligence (cal. 190), naïve diplomatic ineptitude, and poetic fantasies of “if we’re nice to them, they’ll be nice to us” illusions. Factually, grandiose ‘macho’ dictators
despise
such weak ‘feminine’, ‘cowardly’ positions and are, in fact, further inflamed into aggression by the primitive predator/prey instinctual animal brain response, i.e., passivity invites aggression.

The weak masculine fears and hates women or the feminine (except for lust). This is exemplified by gangster rap that calls women whores and pumps up ‘kicking’ pregnant, degraded women in the belly. The strong masculine does not feel threatened by women but instead honors and is protective of them. True masculinity is self-assured and has no need to strut or demean others. It honors women.

Malignant Messianic Narcissism

The world’s failure to identify this pathologic syndrome accounts for the death of millions of innocent people in every generation. It is really the responsibility of governments and their leaders, as well as the populace, to become familiar with this disease that is so far removed from normalcy that the average person can scarcely even imagine it to be a social reality.

The public in general tends to be naïveté about mental disorders, even when blatantly displayed. People commonly believe that other humans are basically just like they are. Nothing could be farther from the truth. There are many people who are the diametric opposite of normalcy and all that is perceived to go with that idealized state. The world is full of people who hate love, integrity, peace, and truth; in fact, it infuriates them. (See Peck,
People of the Lie
, 1983.)

While the psychopathology of criminality (
Chapter 11
) and malignant narcissism (
Chapter 14
) have been reviewed, malignant messianic narcissism warrants further attention as the ultimate, severe degree of these disorders. It is a combination of composite pathologies of an extremely low level of consciousness (cal. 30), plus the deficits of reason; an absence of conscience; the inability to identify with or value other human life; the disdain for human, moral, or ethical values; disdain for women; greed for power; infatuation and aggrandizement of the self; and ego inflation to messianic grandiosity. The disorder is often difficult to recognize because it occurs in two distinct forms: (1) early onset (childhood bully type), and (2) adult life onset after some years of normalcy subsequent to the gaining of power (i.e., “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”).

The second form does not occur in democracies because power is split between the head of state and other heads of government (judiciary, parliament, congress, military, diplomatic, etc.). Thus, the disorder is unique to dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies (Nero, Caesar, Hussein, Khomeini, Napoleon, Hitler, Ivan the Terrible, etc.) It also afflicts top, highly paid executives who ‘lose their sense of reality’ and feel ‘entitled’ to help themselves to the company’s cash and assets (Chandler, 2004).

At the present time, the trials of Milosevic and Hussein afford a valuable opportunity to examine and become familiar with this gross disorder and thereby learn to recognize it. In each case, the setting was the same. Early signs were the narcissistic display of the ‘great leaders’, philosophies, and images via billboards, statues, parades, and constant repetition via the media, as well as propagandizing in schools and ‘special’ youth groups where militant ideology was inculcated with well-recognized brainwashing techniques. Importantly, ‘the leader’ replaced God and was worshipped with idolatries and special arm salutes. The great leader’s ego, already inflated, then became full-blown grandiosity through adulation, elaborate public military parades and mass theatrical public events and carefully staged demonstrations of public acclaim. Women wept with emotion and children were persuaded through propaganda to serve and joyously give up their lives for the ‘Great Leader’.

Current as well as past megalomaniacs display the same contempt for fellow countrymen and even their families. Hitler stated that the German populace deserved to die because they lost the war. Hitler as well as Stalin hated their own successful generals and killed them. Hussein called his populace ‘dogs’ and slaughtered three hundred thousand. Hitler ‘exterminated’ six million Jews. Stalin murdered millions in the gulags, including even his own victorious returning troops.

Another symptom is the desecration of places of beauty or worship, e.g., churches (blow up the ancient, great Buddha in Afghanistan; burn down Paris, Rome, etc.) Desecration takes the form of the slaughter of women, innocents, and mere civilians. The savagery is both bizarre (beheading, evisceration, mutilation, ‘hung and quartered’) and theatrically displayed (televised slow beheading with a saw, cutting off tongues, hands, and feet). It is really easy for normal people to understand the psychology and motives of malignant, messianic narcissists—they are simply the
exact opposite
of who you are in every detail.

Contrasting Wars—Calibrations

Korean War

Vietnam War

Cold War

Gulf War

World War I

Comparative: Napoleonic Wars – Waterloo

Although each of the above deserves more extensive and detailed examination and reporting, for the sake of brevity, even a few rudimentary calibrations rather accurately summarize the overall situation. Note that U. S. intelligence operations are consistently defective (cal. 190).

As noted elsewhere, not only power but also fame itself can corrupt. Both Hitler and Napoleon calibrated in the mid-400s during the early constructive phases of their reigns but later fell to very low calibration levels, which led to their defeat due to grandiosity (ignoring the counsel of seasoned generals, etc.). Fame itself can have a similar effect as it did with Herman Goring.

Calibrations: Iraqi War (Early)

Above 200: