Kupelian - How Evil Works

HOW EVIL WORKS

Praise for David Kupelian and
HOW EVIL WORKS

With the unapologetic outrage of a saint and the fearless fury of a General Patton, here comes David Kupelian turning a blowtorch of good upon the putrid cobwebs of evil. Do you remember removing the back of a clock to look into the workings? In How Evil Works, Kupelian lets us look directly into evil itself. There it isevery tick, every tock, every trick, every shock.

Barry Farber, legendary radio talk-show host and author

David Kupelian skillfully exposes the secular lefts rotten-apple peddlers in devastating detail.

Michelle Malkin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Culture of Corruption and Fox News contributor

David Kupelian dares to tell the truth about the overwhelming forces in our society which take us away from our original American concept of freedom.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, talk-show host and New York Times bestselling author

David Kupelian reveals the hidden mechanisms that allow lies and deception to take root in modern America.

Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.

In years to come Americans will acknowledge a debt of gratitude to David Kupelian for his honesty, courage, and laser-like insight.

Rabbi Daniel Lapin, author, radio talk-show host, founder of the American Alliance of Jews & Christians

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kupelian, David, 1949

How evil works / David Kupelian. 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
p. cm. (Threshold nonfiction original hardcover)
1. Good and evil. I. Title.

BJ1401.K868 2010
170dc22 2009032887

ISBN 978-1-4391-6819-6

ISBN 978-1-4391-6820-2 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-4391-6864-6 (eBook)

To my father, Vahey S. Kupelian, who as a little
boy survived the unthinkable evils of genocide,
escaped to the promised land of America, worked
really hard, and eventually became a rocket scientist
dedicated to defending his adopted country

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CONTENTS

Why We Elect Liars as Leaders

Whats Behind Todays Epidemic of Teacher-Student Sex?

The Ultimate Stockholm Syndrome

Understanding Todays Rampant Narcissism

Why So Many Americans Are Labeled Mentally Ill

Whats Behind the Popularity of Paganism, Witchcraft, and New Age Religions

Why Militant Atheism Is Becoming a Badge of Honor

How the Feminization of America Hurts Men and Boys

How Innocent Children Become Murderers and Rapists

Rare Insights from Persecuted Saints of the Past

How to Prevail Against a Government and Culture Gone Mad

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The great paradox of the human racenamely, that were so smart we understand just about everything, except ourselveshas never been more striking, or more troubling, than right now.

Today, we understand the physics of an expanding universe and the mysterious behavior of quarks. We know how to create vaccines and custom genes, replace body parts and build space robots. Our knowledge of life and the universe continues to grow dramatically in every field imaginable. Except one.

We dont understand evilwhat it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives. Put another way, we dont understand ourselves. Despite the human races extraordinary capacity for invention and progress, we clearly have a millennia-old blind spot in this one all-important area.

Consider: While living in an age of exponential growth in knowledge, 20 to 30 million Americans currently take powerful, mood-altering psychiatric drugs to deal with depression, bipolar disorder, and a slew of other mental health problemsdespite the troubling link between those drugs and extreme violent behavior. Our relationships are increasingly fragile: We cant seem to stay marrieddivorce and family breakdown are still rampant. Besides, were not even sure what we believe anymore. Increasingly, Americans are forsaking their traditional faiths of Christianity and Judaism in favor of witchcraft and other pagan or New Age practices, while angry, in-your-face atheist manifestos top bestseller lists.

Meanwhile, todays culture of sexual anarchy manifests ever new and disturbing syndromessame-sex marriage, people attempting to surgically morph into the opposite gender, pedophiles and polygamists striving to ride the gay-rights bandwagon to acceptance, and an epidemic of female schoolteachers sexually preying on their students. For many, Judeo-Christian morality, the foundation of Western civilization for thousands of years, has become a quaint memory.

America herself is in increasing conflict, more polarized than at any time since the Civil War. Politicians routinely tell colossal lies to advance their agendas, and regardless of who gets elected president, government just seems to grow uncontrollably, destroying the peoples freedom, prosperity, and contentment. To top it off, a malignant version of a major world religion is replicating ferociously across the globe with a message of radical intolerance, terror, and domination, yet the submissive, almost apologetic response of many in the West resembles a national version of the Stockholm syndrome.

Clearly, despite our massive accumulation of knowledge, were still missing something essential: an understanding of ourselves and the forces acting through us that mysteriously churn out deception, suffering, and, all too often, tragedy.

Most books about evil are written either by theologians, who offer doctrinal explanations of its origin and implications, or psychologists and psychiatrists, who present a more clinical perspective. I am none of these, but rather, a working journalist.

In the news business, a great deal of what we call news is, lets face it, evil . When a mother reads her children a bedtime story and tucks them into bed, its not news. But if she drowns her five children in the bathtub, as Andrea Yates did, its big news. When youve reported on personal, political, and cultural corruption for as many years as I have, its only natural to want to identify underlying causes. Thus my long-term interest in this subjectrooted not only in my work as a journalist, but also perhaps in being the offspring of genocide survivors and so having been aware from an early age of the evil that men dohas resulted in an earlier book, The Marketing of Evil , and now this one.

In the present book, using todays most sensational news stories as a starting point, together we will explore, as the title says, How Evil Works the actual mechanics, the inner workings, and the operating system of this most vexing and underexamined part of all our lives.