Why “pathocracy” is a great word
PATHOCRACY — [Noun] A system of government in which power is held by individuals with clinical personality disorders, such as psychopathy or malignant narcissism. From the combining form patho- (from Greek pathos, "suffering, disease") + -cracy (from Greek -kratia, "rule, power"). Unlike kleptocracy, which denotes governance by thieves, or autocracy, which merely denotes governance by one, pathocracy names the chilling inversion where a clinical deficit of empathy becomes the operating system of the state. It is the hollow-eyed bureaucrat enforcing a senseless decree, the gleeful propagation of grandiose lies that serve no strategic end, and the gaslit public sphere where empathy becomes a punishable liability—a society forced to inhabit the interior of a damaged mind, where the pathology of the few becomes the suffering of the many.