Just because you're paranoid ...

[Joseph Tracy]

   Is  the word paranoid exclusively referent to delusional states, to madness, to false fears?  Is it just another scientific sounding greek word that seems like a medical term, but  like most words is inherently metaphoric and ambiguous?

  Regardless of how you answer there is a lot of money in fear.  All my life I have lived in a culture that was obsessed by exaggerated  geopolitical fears and has spent billions of dollars and  rivers of blood on "enemies" that were as human and rational as any other human group and posed no reasonable threat  to our society. Those on the forefront of these obsessive fears almost inevitably became as cruel as their imagined foes and willing to dispense with law, reason and moral restraint to contain the spread of the very thing they had invited into their own thinking and behavior. Those who followed them into battle became more likely to commit suicide than any other group - victims of the conspiracy theories of US politics, their memories of service a source only of self loathing. Don't ask why.

Sadly, these paranoid traits have become part and parcel of political leadership in the US.  Paranoid conspiracy theorists are not just in the NRA or KKK or the black block, they set the policy of the worlds largest military  empire. The  terrorists they conjure have been summoned from their own minds and actions, a resource of infinite devilry currently obsessed with the pre-emptive punishment of imaginary crimes . The thing they hate and fear most is not terrorism but whistleblowers who expose the fact that they behave at least as badly as those they call " the enemy".


On Feb 25, 2014, at 4:08 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

> https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/
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> Glen Greenwald: "Over the last several weeks, I worked with NBC News to publish a series of articles about 'dirty trick' tactics used by GCHQ's previously secret unit, JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group). These were based on four classified GCHQ documents presented to the NSA and the other three partners in the English-speaking 'Five Eyes' alliance. Today, we at the Intercept are publishing another new JTRIG document, in full, entitled 'The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations.'"
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