If You're Not Paranoid, You're Crazy

[John Bailey]

Apologies if this has been posted before but it seemed like something
some P-listers would enjoy.

A writer's reluctant embrace of paranoia in the surveillance age, with
mention of an acquaintance he describes as "a notably solitary older
novelist who avoided computers altogether"...

"With me was a friend named Dalton Brink, a former Navy nuclear
technician. We’d driven down from Montana the night before, tuned in
to one of those wee-hours AM talk shows whose hosts tend to suffer
from a wretched smoker’s cough and whose conspiracy-minded guests
channel a collective unconscious understandably disturbed by current
events. Their hushed revelations are batty but compelling, charged
with weird folkloric energies: Our nation’s leaders have reptile DNA
and belong to abominable sex cults. Microwave stations above the
Arctic Circle whose beams cause cluster headaches and amnesia are
crippling America’s truth-seeking subversives. To those who understand
that fiction warps the truth in order to tell the truth, the literal
meanings of such tales are beside the point. Nightmares are a form of
news."


http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/11/if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-crazy/407833/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
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