ABSTRACT
Distinction between the causes of various historical genocides reveals the many faces of the dynamic of splitting fostered by an intolerant authority. This dynamic includes (1) a history of punitive laws and critical behavior aimed at affirming a dichotomous polarity of an elite “us” and a lower status “them” in the dynamics or rigid otherness (alterity); (2) an exclusionary or narcissistic ideology seeking unity or purity coupled with a history of violent ideological or ethnic conflict; (3) a death ideology or constellation (thanatopolitics) expressed through the idea that war and/or predatory violence is necessary as a preventative solution or a necessity for order (i.e. lynching and vigilantism) to enforce racial and class hierarchies with political/economic advantages. All these elements are founded on cognitive and emotively distorted group belief systems: hallucinosis. False beliefs are a controlling, omnipotent, superior, exciting, sadistic, triumph over an existing and prior reality.
