Pay particular attention to these instructions, noting the extraordinary characteristics of this type of test.

This is not a True or False or Multiple Choice test. This is a test of your understanding of the essay on The Form Understanding.

Click on the circle before each A (Agree) or D (Disagree) to indicate whether the essay or world conditions would Agree or Disagree with each item.

1. It would not be insane to say that America is now ruled by psychopathic (insane) rulers.
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2. Most ordinary persons' understanding of the world is unquestionably correct.
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3. Most persons have no genuine interest in understanding themselves or their world.
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4. For most Americans, if someone were to claim that America is a fascist, criminal state--they would say this is NOT the truth but a deranged, subversive misrepresentation of the truth.
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5. Insane pathocratic rulers are driving Americans insane.
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6. It would not be absurd to say that Donald Trump is insane and is driving his Republican base even more insane.
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7. America is no longer a democracy, but a pathocracy: "a system of government created by a small pathological minority that takes control over a society of somewhat normal people."
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8. It would be insane to say that in order for us to rid ourselves of the murderers and thieves that now rule over us in the mundane world, it's necessary for us to recognize that these seemingly-sane persons are actually psychopathic monsters.
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9. Donald Trump evinces all the characteristics of psychopathy: engagement in illegal and immoral behavior without any feeling of guilt, aggressive narcissism, glibness and superficial charm, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, cunning and manipulation, lack of remorse, shallow affect, callousness and lack of empathy.
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10. True understanding involves the development of intelligence, the ability to see through the subterfuge of conditioning, propaganda, and consensus reality.
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11. The Parable of the Poisoned Water shows that in a society of insane people, insanity becomes invisible.
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12. In a Pathocracy, the unskilled, unenlightened, and depraved seize the rule of a society to its detriment and final destruction.
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13. It would be insane to say that a depraved society--such as we now face--can destroy a person's soul.
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14. We should describe pathocratic leaders' beliefs and actions in a kindly manner, seeing these persons as well-intentioned instead of referring to pathocracy as rule by insane thugs.
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15. "The money power preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in times of adversity" must have been said by Karl Marx, not by Abraham Lincoln.
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16. We should not use our knowledge of the elements which make up pathocracy (the rule of the insane) to identify insane leaders (e.g. Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, Trump, Republican and Democratic Party leaders, capitalist predators, etc.) and bring these madmen to an accounting in criminal proceedings.
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17. That an insane leader can make his followers insane is shown by Trump, continually lying about the 2016 election, has made almost half of Republican voters believe that he won the popular vote in that election.
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18. That an insane leader can lead his followers to insane and criminal attitudes and behaviors is shown by 42 percent of Trump's Republican base saying they would support postponing the 2020 election if Trump suggested this was necessary.
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19. The irrational reliance on convention and public opinion, rather than on genuine principle, tends to erode the growth of humanistic conscience, rendering those subject to it prone to apathy or opportunism.
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20. It is impossible for a person to be highly intelligent, highly successful and still lack the ability to think deeply.
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