NP: Paranoia's changing face

[alice wellintown]

Thanks for this. How about that Simpson's episode, aired here in nyc last
night, Homer dreams his is a claymation action figure.

On Monday, September 23, 2013, John Bailey wrote:

> Sorry if already posted - Interesting piece in the New Yorker that
> brings up how the content of paranoid delusions often has cultural and
> technological ties to the context.
>
> "in the 40s, the Japanese controlled American minds with radio waves;
> in the 50s, the Soviets accomplished this with satellites; in the 70s,
> the CIA implanted computer chips into people's brains."
>
> Apparently the last decade and a half has seen a big upswing in people
> thinking that they're the star of a reality show.
>
> http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/16/130916fa_fact_marantz
>
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