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It's not paranoia if they're really after you! Kidding aside, while I know the article is talking about gang-stalking and paranoia of things that aren't there

It's not paranoia if they're really after you! Kidding aside, while I know the article is talking about gang-stalking and paranoia of things that aren't there as variations of psychosis, there is a deeper conversation to be had about the role of real government and private business in actions and methods that actually encourage them, along with the fact that sometimes people aren't just crazy and things really are happening to them. So as not to get to distracted from the original topic, I won't expound too much, but in an era of mk ultra, emf weaponry, massive surveillance societies, silencing of dissidents, including assassination, and various other trust breaking experiments or operations against our own citizens, perhaps they arent all crazy.

giardini 10y ago
Don't know why the downvote for OP. A variant on the same joke: I had a friend who used to occasionally say "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you!" which always made me laugh. I laugh still but less, because our surveillance society has now reduced the vague "they" to government/police agencies who seem relentlessy devoted to shredding any concept of privacy that ever existed in Western thought. And the OP is right: the revelation of so much previously-unrevealed surveillance by government and law-enforcement can only, to someone who is from suspicious to paranoid, increase their suspicions or in some cases _prove_ (to them) their fears. When I was a child I feared because my parents told me that "God is watching you!"; today I fear because God knows who's watching me! At least, in the case of "God", I understood his intentions.