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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
Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t understand how anything works.
– Unknown
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
Therefore, as in all social fears, there will be an increasing belief in the coming decade that the federal government is in the hands of conspirators.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Paranoia could have you flinching at false threats. And once you started to doubt what you actually knew, the next stage was becoming too frozen to act.
Jenny Schwartz • Astray (The Adventures of a Xeno-Archaeologist Book 1)
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 delu
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