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Academia is ponerological1 hell on earth.
There are some good people but the humanities are fully infested with weak little shits who form clubby gangs and kick out anyone more talented or honest than they are.
The atmosphere is intellectually stifling.
Honest, rigorous humanities are among our most important fields of study.
Losing those fields to those losers has been a major national loss. ABN
- Ponerological
The term “ponerological” relates to the study of evil, derived from the Greek word ponērós, meaning “evil” In its original theological context, ponerology examines the nature, origin, and implications of evil in relation to divine governance, with subdivisions including sin and death The concept was systematized by theologian Karl Immanuel Nitzsch, who included it as a major rubric in his System der christlichen Lehre alongside agathology (the study of good) and soteriology (the study of salvation) In a modern, secular interpretation, the term is used in political ponerology, a framework developed by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski, which analyzes how individuals with psychopathological conditions—such as psychopathy or other personality disorders—can infiltrate and dominate political and social systems, leading to large-scale inhumanity like war, genocide, and despotism This framework posits that societies undergo cyclical fluctuations between “happy times” and “unhappy times,” during which psychological health deteriorates and pathological individuals gain influence, potentially leading to a pathocracy—a system ruled by the mentally ill The term “ponerological” may thus describe analyses or theories rooted in this interdisciplinary approach to understanding the mechanisms by which evil, particularly in organized forms, emerges and spreads within human systems ↩︎
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