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From wikipedia:

Ponerology is the name given by Polish psychiatrist Andrzej Łobaczewski to an interdisciplinary study of the causes of periods of social injustice. This discipline makes use of data from psychology, psychopathology, sociology, philosophy, and history to account for such phenomena as aggressive war, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and police states.

A like-minded friend recently pointed out Lobaczewski’ book to me. I read the preface, the foreword, and the first chapter for free on Google books. In the first chapter, Andrzej claims that since the dawn of mankind, 6% of  humanity has been comprised of suave, clever, law-abiding psychopaths who have zero conscience – none, nada, zilch. The “no conscience” advantage that these people have had over the other 94% of the populace has allowed the wretches to commit the greatest number of man-made atrocities over the entire course of history. Andrzej also states that this advantage allows them to perpetually rise, undiscovered, to the highest levels of government and industry. Scary stuff, no?

Here are a couple of  my favorite passages from the book:

Psychology is the only science in which the observer and the observed belong to the same species, even the same person in an act of introspection. That is why his natural world view of humans can be neither sufficiently universal nor completely true.

Whenever a society has become enslaved to others or to the rule of an overly-privileged class, psychology is the first discipline to suffer from censorship and incursions on the part of an administrative body which starts claiming the last word as to what represents scientific truth.