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paranoia is a project of worlding that indexes a social totality.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
“Always suspect everybody” -Foxey, Sampson brass’s father
Capital hands at business have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass
“Only the paranoid survive” —Andy
The only way to get over this initial paranoia is to clean up our own act. Finding out what needs to be cleaned up is simple and easy. Just look at what you would not want others to know about you and begin to surrender it!
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
Historically, many groups that attempted to engage paranormal phenomena became unstable. There is little reason to think that secret government projects would escape that fate. They too are probably prone to paranoia and conspiracy theorizing. Because of the secrecy surrounding their work, and the importance of it, they could be susceptible to
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
paranoia as an altogether more collectively experienced affect, generated in part by cultures of political correctness.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Paranoid—A pattern of distrust and suspiciousness such that others’ motives are interpreted as malevolent. “Reads hidden, demeaning, or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events.”
