Paranoia: Is it Always a Bad Thing?
Todd Hayen
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”
Kurt Cobain
What is paranoia? Usually the condition is coupled with another mental malady: schizophrenia, due to the psychosis brought about by that particular mental illness.
Psychosis is described as a departure from “reality” and being a “paranoid schizophrenic” typically means the psychosis takes the form of paranoia—a departure from reality that has the afflicted constantly looking over his or her shoulder for people, or other things, “after them.”
The disease can also manifest in other ways, always pointing back to the individual much like a hyper form of victim consciousness. Everything in the person’s experience is “out to get them,” conspiracy theories, aliens, ghosts, monsters, governments, authorities, police, bosses, partners. Everyone and everything is focused on the person who is paranoid. Always.
A medical website describes paranoia this way:
Paranoia is characterized by the experience of feeling threatened, persecuted, or conspired against. It can also loosely refer to beliefs of general suspicion regarding the motives or intentions of others.
And goes on to say:
Paranoid ideation is not the same thing as delusional paranoia, which involves beliefs that are false and fixed.
Another form of paranoia would describe a person who immediately jumps to a certain conclusion regarding a situation, and always the same conclusion regardless of any causal element present. An example would be someone who thought anyone who died of just about anything, died due to the vaccine. And also putting that event through a paranoid ideation that says the government, or certain other authority, was intentionally trying to kill people with the vaccine.
We have heard “paranoia” being blamed for much that we, on this side of the fence, are experiencing. “Conspiracy theorist,” in this current context, is really just another name for “paranoid.” It is someone who “makes stuff up” to fit a certain narrative.
But what if all this stuff we are supposed to be making up is actually real?
I know over the past few years I have stopped cold a few times and wondered if I was indeed going insane. When people are constantly telling you that you are insane, you do start to question yourself. The strange thing about our current situation is that someone has got to be nuts, either the sheep or us, it is all too weird to be able to say, like in most disagreements, “well, we can both be a little right, and both be a little wrong.”
Nope. Don’t think so. Sure, there are some things that are still questionable—the details—but one side or another must win, and be “right,” about the whole enchilada. There really is no greyness here.
For me, this has been difficult. The whole situation is by nature elusive and strange. Although when I peruse all of the information, it becomes unquestionably clear what is happening, at least from a broad perspective. But if I don’t have all of the information at my brain’s fingertips, then the questions start to niggle away at me. I snap back into clear realization when I coerce myself to again look at the whole picture.
For example: I will hear of someone in the news who has died some unexpected death. Everything points to the vaccine: a heart condition, died in their sleep, the succumbed was an otherwise healthy person. But then, bang, it is confirmed they were NOT vaccinated. What happened? Then someone suggests that they actually were vaccinated, and the media lied about their vaxxed status. Is that paranoid or what?
When I regroup, and look over the big picture again, I realize that one death doesn’t matter in the larger scheme of things. One person dying mysteriously and being unvaxxed doesn’t make or break the big picture—of course not, that is obvious.
As our friend George Orwell said in 1984:
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, does not make you mad. There is truth, and there is untruth, and if you cling to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.
Thank God for Orwell, clever man. But wow, is it lonely. But we really are not alone, we are more than one! Far more! This is the primary reason why we must constantly be building community. Here on Off-Guardian we must comment, discuss, hold each other as tight as we can. And certainly we must look for community locally so we are in physical touch with one another. We must wipe away that illusion that we are crazy, or paranoid, or wrong, or delusional. We are none of these things, and we must keep reminding ourselves of this fact even if we have to ask each other over and over again, “am I ok? Am I real? Am I believing the right thing?”
There is an awful lot at stake. Some of you super activists out there have been struggling with the “big lie” for quite some time. It is probably quite easy for you to see all of this bull very quickly without much thought. But there are many of us who do find it quite difficult believing that nearly everyone we used to trust are evil liars. And unfortunately, that is exactly what we have to do to make any of this that is going on make any sense.
If you think about it, most evil villain characters in books and movies are a single person—one demented mind that has a bunch of minions supporting his or her evil ways (like the Wicked Witch of the West and her Winkies and Winged Monkeys). Once that singular person is defeated the world then relaxes and returns to its previous goodness.
That isn’t the way it is now. Things are absolutely rotten to the core. The entire system is messed up and everything and everyone that goes with it: politics at all levels, education at all levels, laws and law enforcement, medicine and medical education, economy and the world money system. If believing all this doesn’t seem paranoid, I don’t know what would.
But it is true. At least true enough to say it is true. Yes, there are details, and often the details can be outliers and not fit with the general ugliness. I have yet to believe that everyone in “power” is an “evil liar” or that all of the people engaged in these systems, such as education and medicine, are evil minions of the devil. There are many good people intertwined in all of this, “just doing their jobs, taking care of their families,” all with good hearts.
This is one very important reason why many of us think we have gone mad. Everything sort of just rolls along. People can do just that, do their jobs and take care of their families, and not a lot gets in their way. But is that really true? Can we really just roll along and not be affected by the rot our entire lives sit on? All this that goes on over our heads, all that is mentioned above, is not going the way it should be going. Much of it is downright evil.
No, I don’t think we can just roll along. Maybe many of us are just realizing that for the first time. And everywhere we turn we see it—they are indeed after us. No doubt about it.
Todd Hayen is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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Some of us can’t just roll along. I don’t think those still trundling here realise they could be one significant health problem away from personal disaster, and having them is just a question of time. Here, meaning the UK. Our healthcare system wasn’t functioning well before, let alone now. When I feel crazy, I focus on what I know best, the simplest most inexcapable facts. Like our government, which is hostile to socialised healthcare, shutting down access to healthcare claiming it was for health. It’s not neccesary to even get to worrying about possible medical side effects from the vaccine, with side effects tending hard to prove anyway. The government could be outright plotting to kill us all and I don’t even really care because they already crossed the line, it’s already clear the system doesn’t serve most of us. Also, as well as loss of access to physical healthcare… Read more »
Stop me if you’ve heard this one:
“Just because I’m paradoid doesn’t mean there aren’t people coming to get me”.
“Before I went to work in a mental hospital I used to think of people as either sane or crazy. Now I think of people as crazy but nice or crazy but not so nice” — Rita Schwartz, psychiatric social worker.
I started this article with that first quote…attributed to Kurt Cobain…but who knows who actually said it. …the other quote is great too…
It is important to note the distinction between labels and conditions. — R.D. Laing – The Politics of Experience (1967) From Chapter 5: The Schizophrenic Experience p.p. 100-01 There is no such “condition” as “schizophrenia”, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. This political event, occurring in the civic order of society, imposes definitions and consequences on the labelled person. It is a social prescription that rationalizes a set of social actions whereby the labelled person is annexed by others, who are legally sanctioned, medically empowered, and morally obliged, to become responsible for the person labelled. The person labelled is inaugurated not only into a role, but into a career of patient, by the concerted action of a coalition (a “conspiracy”) of family, G.P., mental health officer, psychiatrists, nurses, psychiatric social workers, and often fellow patients. The “committed” person labelled as patient, and… Read more »
Quote; “The person labelled is inaugurated not only into a role, but into a career of patient, by the concerted action of a coalition (a “conspiracy”) of family, G.P., mental health officer, psychiatrists, nurses, psychiatric social workers….” All true in our experience of what happened to our son. But you forgot to include psychiatric DRUGS in the conspiracy. The family believed the “mantra” that the patient should take those drugs FOREVER. They calm the patien down but cause the patient to gain weight: our son died of a cardiovascular incident. I regret that I did not try to wean my son off those drugs when his delusions and odd behaviour began to become less acute. Quote: “The committed person labelled as patient, and specifically as “schizophrenic”, is degraded from legal status as human agent and responsible person, no longer in possession of his own definition of himself, unable to retain… Read more »
I thank God every day that I am not a psychiatrist or even a psychologist given the power to diagnose. The longer I am in the “biz” the more I realize how the top end of it is so whacked…and always has been. I get to treat all of my patients as human beings having varied experiences…archetypal psychology does not pathologize.
In spite of our technology, we still are only a very short step away from the middle Ages.
Good points.
“There really is no greyness here”
This was my belief since May 2020.
Thanks for your clear cut article.
Thank you for reading it…
“I know over the past few years I have stopped cold a few times and wondered if I was indeed going insane.” Indeed. It’s a lonely fight we’re in and we can be proud that we’re holding the line, though we’re certainly not winning at the moment.
I don’t believe we are winning it either, and I write about that fact quite a bit. I think we can be proud of our efforts, and proud of some of the skirmishes it appears we have won, but this thing we are fighting is the Death Star…it is a behemoth and can afford to lose many battles to make us feel complacent…it isn’t going down easily.
There’s somethin’ happenin’ here But what it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there A-tellin’ me I got to beware I think it’s time we stop Children, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down There’s battle lines being drawn And nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong Young people speakin’ their minds A-gettin’ so much resistance from behind I think it’s time we stop Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down What a field day for the heat (ooh-ooh-ooh) A thousand people in the street (ooh-ooh-ooh) Singin’ songs and a-carryin’ signs (ooh-ooh-ooh) Mostly say, “Hooray for our side” (ooh-ooh-ooh) It’s time we stop Hey, what’s that sound? Everybody look what’s going down Paranoia strikes deep Into your life, it will creep It starts when you’re always afraid You step out of line The man come and take you away We better stop, hey, what’s… Read more »
Very good…we (my generation) saw it back then, did we win? No way. It’s still here…
Yes, there is the evil system in this world. But not everything is part of evil. Good exists. Truth is one of the goods. Justice, freedom, are others. Everything that is good resides in us. However, in us may be the opposition to goodness; some call it the ego, some call it the devil. The name doesn’t matter. The spirit of it matters. I know paranoia from experience. It is fear. Pure paranoia is pure fear. So, it’s not good. When we are with the Right Spirit, the Spirit of truth and justice and freedom, there isn’t and cannot be any fear. All fear sides with Satan. That is the devil or the ego, or whatever name you have for it. I know it firsthand from experience. Things will get better. God never breaks his promise. So what’s promised? The new earth, new heaven and new earth. God will take… Read more »
I like this very much. Thank you.
Always, Todd. Always. It saps your energy and renders you weak. Paranoia is delusion.
Paranoia is mental illness.
And mental illness is Hell.
You don’t need any (any!) paranoia to oppose the WEF, Bill Gates, the War in Ukraine. I oppose them all. I’m not paranoid.
It’s not necessary to be paranoid. Be rational – don’t be dumb.
I spend so long imploring people on threads like these to stay grounded in reality. And influential prats like you come along and start glorifying mental illness.
Idiot. You have my contempt.
Are you serious? You have no idea what I wrote….
Yes…I am sorry I am not clear in my article regarding my views on “mental illness”…it is a complex subject and would require quite a few more words to parse out.
My intention was not as you state, in fact, the whole play on “paranoia” as a “mental illness” was the point. It isn’t an “illness” if it is true, and anyone can say what is true and what isn’t, but that doesn’t change the facts.
I saw this article on Yahoo Finance this morning:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-tech-billionaire-marc-lore-is-all-in-on-fast-fine-food-delivery-161432170.html
I immediately had the paranoid thought that maybe this is what’s behind banning gas stoves.
Marc Lore is quoted as saying:
“I know that we have a massive opportunity to change people’s lives and change how they eat, and to really elevate this at-home dining experience that everybody wants.”
Would you eat food cooked by this man? I wouldn’t.
I am currently reading “The Evil Twins of Technology and Transhumanism”…wow…talk about feeling paranoid…but I have no doubt it is all true.
Excellent Todd, you’ve put it so succinctly what it is like to be human today. I knew something like this would happen when I was a boy (long ago) and I have no acceptance for it. My own flesh and blood are sheep. I cannot/will not give in, I’ll keep badgering them, maybe one day. Badgers are lovely animals.
I am not mad.
Mental hospitals are full of such people.
Thank you Owen…I think a lot of us share your experience…although I am intrigued when you say you knew something like this would happen when you were a boy…how is that? I bought all this (which was of course going on when I was a boy) hook line and sinker until I read about JFK’s assassination when I was about 15.
Thank you too Todd.
I’ll answer your question in detail on your substack which I have just subscribed to.
In short, it was when I first heard of the WW2 atrocities (I was about eleven I think) I realized everything I was seeing truly was a veil of deceit. That could not happen in a natural balanced world so it had to be all wrong and controlled by some evil entity.
Today I see it plain as day right in front of my eyes.
My sincere gratitude to you, other authors and Off-Guardian for good orderly direction…!
(Attn Admins, was there a time when one was sent an email when an author responded to a comment? I found this purely by accident ‘cos I wanted to read the article again)
Having watched this video and having thought about the matter some more, I’ve come to the conclusion that the conventional world as we know it, the world most people consider “normal”, the society we live in as generally perceived and depicted by the media, all of that, is certifiably batshit fucking crazy.
The life of a random normalized human is the exact opposite of what would be considered normalcy.
I applaud all paranoiacs, madmen, crazies, people not only able to see the phantasmagoria of today’s civilization, the pretense, the lies, the utter corruption, but also capable of getting off the rotten train of what confused dimwits consider the ultimate progress.
Then you support the “normal”.
Well said.
Many thanks Kurt for the link to the exquisite rendition of Fool on the Hill.
Music is the language of the soul.
Why listen to leaders and experts in lies and contradictions? There should be no doubt to be in opposition to flat out lies and deceptions made by evil people. If no fight for truth and freedom, you and me will be at the same side as the followers of darkness. That includes if one should be silenced by force, fear of confronting the official narrative, deliberate laziness not digging to understand reality contra the insanity outlayed and outplayed by people in power etc. The obligation to fight for truth and normalcy is measured directly by the level of our mindset and actions, understanding that the fight is solemnly about our souls/our personal integrity and for mankind generally. If anyone should be “paranoid” according to the evil people, it might be a surprisingly good protection against their madness, but being alert 24-7 is quite unhealthy and the medication to protect our… Read more »
There are no evil people. Klaus Schwab is not evil. Schwab is delusional, grandiose, a megalomaniac. But he is not “evil”.
How much death and destruction will it take to defeat Medical Materialism? I’ve consistently underestimated the resilience of the Medical Materialism cult. In the early days of the lockdown I thought around a third of people would see straight through the covid bullshit. We would form defiant, hand-holding chains as we wound our way through town centres. Churches would open for Easter – or the locked-out congregations would sing hymns outside. When the jabs were released, I thought they would be resolutely rejected by at least half the population. Moreover, I assumed it would finally be possible to dismantle the foundational absurdity known as “mental illness”. When around 80% of the adult population were getting jabbed, I settled on the idea that the Biblical collapse would be sufficient. This is the “feet of clay” allegory; or Laing’s off-course plane formation flying into the side of a mountain. There’s a lot… Read more »
How much death and destruction will it take to defeat Medical Materialism? Death & destruction are taken as proofs of (medical) materialism. There’s only one who is in process of waking and that is our self in truth. While we think we know we are stuffed with think. No room for the Infinite. Is our focus in the world as narrative drama that compels or paralyses us? That reality is not as we thought is a partial waking, but to shift immediately to reset thinking as our backstory and timeline is to ‘escape’ into another dream? Protection against the light will mask as the light, and defend against reality as existential threat, with death worshipped as power set over life. Unconsciousness running under idol-forms of death within life. Life waking its own, gives a self-fulness that naturally extends or shares – not a bio-insecurity in search of boosters for a… Read more »
Hence my earlier statement regarding karmic justice and “an eye for an eye”. Kind must be met with kind. By “defeat” I mean the disabling such that there is no longer the threat to life and liberty.
I have to say I am right there with you more than I am not…I often believe the only hope is a complete destruction of everything we see now and to start over from scratch.
I used to live in that same delusion you describe…”why are people doing this? This simply can’t happen this way, people are not this lost…”
Imagine if the human brain were incapable of suspicion.
Is that what a lobotomy achieves?
What a scary thought, everyone you met or will ever meet has had a lobotomy.
The herd would believe:
In Russiagate because everyone else does.
Believes Bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad Pakistan.
Believes the official September 11th story.
Believes the Ukraine war is about protecting democracy.
…
…
What a scary place that world would be.
It is the concept of ‘everything is allowed but never any critic.’
You found the concept described by Marquis de Sade in ‘Aline et Vancour’, where the utopia of Tamoe is described.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_and_Valcour
In this time it is useful to know Lacan. His thoughts were based on analysing deSade and Kant.
It doesn’t follow. If you were innocent of capacity to think harm, would you be actively running a predictive control as your command and control defence system? Past made in fear, pain and loss sets a mind against reliving it – or of being totally undone overwhelmed by it. But there is and are ways in which a capacity to feel is denied and thus the capacity to move with a real question and receive an answer in like kind. Those cut off from their feeling as a form of saving from fear or conflict, must think in place of feeling, so to be operating a thinking that they acquire or inherit as a sense of socially masking inclusion or acceptance, in place of feeling and knowing their own life as it joins in and with others and world. Masking fear in control will generate the very thing that it… Read more »
Suspicion is normal. Paranoia is mental illness. Know the difference.
Exactly right. That is how it is described or defined. But how is it applied? Most sheep think most of us are paranoid conspiracy theorists. Who makes them wrong or right? It seems that people cannot make that choice on their own. I do, most of the time, and I would suspect you do too…but it appears that most people do not, they ask someone else to decide for them.
They’re very much after us – and as long as they are continually on the offense, like some kind of irresiistable force, they are going to very inevitably win, if ‘we the people’ get off our assess and stop complaining and start doing something about it – thoughts here – Democracy Study Guide – https://www.rudemacedon.ca/DSG/0000-summary.html
Who are “they”? Name names.
Mike whitney writes about the war in Ukraine “The war has settled into a World War 1-style battle of attrition with carefully dug trenches and relatively stable fronts.”
Can the same be said of the WEF-UN war against humanity ? Or is it currentlty the calm before the storm ? (Paranoia having nothing to do with it ?)…
https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/a-us-led-coalition-of-the-willing-foreshadows-the-splintering-of-nato
And ‘What next USA ?’ To galvanize The West, will the US sabotage The Chunnel and blame it on The Russians ?
‘The War Drags On ‘ by Donovan is “no longer available” on Youtube…
Yes it is:
“The issue isn’t whether you’re paranoid, but whether you’re paranoid enough.”
—from the movie “Strange Days”
Virus Paranoia: They may be invisible but you know they are there and they mean to get you…
“If it aint being medicalised, it’s being pathologised.” (anon)…
The degree of a civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons. (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The prison gates are not only found in the criminal justice system which passes for the rule of law. It’s found in the medical system which has ‘taken care of’ the ‘mentally ill’ from asylums to chemical restraints under the rule of reason. The reality is that rationales of population control have been imposed on people for our own good by governors and gatekeepers, with all the alibis of our welfare at the disposal of tyranny, and that might makes right in a ‘free’ society governed throughout by carceral institutions. The constitution of madness as a mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, affords the evidence of a broken dialogue, posits the separation as already effected, and thrusts into oblivion all those stammered, imperfect words without fixed syntax in which the exchange between madness and reason were… Read more »
Lol, quoting Che Guevara, a rapist and child murderer.
That could be said of almost every Western and Eastern Ruler of the last 6,000 years.
Thank you articulating what I’ve been feeling. I question my own sanity. My husband and I had a fight today over something stupid we saw on media and thank goodness we recognized the mind play at work right away, said “I love you” and moved on. Too bad we can’t do that collectively. We need to VERY SOON!
You want everyone to move on from mass torture and mass murder.
She may mean by “moving on” to move to the issues at hand, rather than spitting at each other, meaning “move on to dealing with the mass torture and mass murder”…and move away from bickering. I could learn a bit myself from those words.
Were they being paranoid? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2013&version=KJV Revelation 13 King James Version 1. And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2. And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority. 3. And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. 4. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to… Read more »
Rockefeller Foundation: What we need is centralized “nutrition security system.”
What a good idea, huh?
Yes, saw this shit the other day, with never-ceasing amazement at how shameless these creeps can be.
See also HARPA, “Food Is Medicine” and god knows how many other agencies and agendas are out and about to ‘take care of us’ (not to sound paranoid or anything like that, of course!).
Seems in this time of universal deceit all that’s left for us to do is laugh deliriously at the insanity.
Self-specialness is necessarily associated with a a threatening world. Not because the world is seeking to destroy it but because reality does not uphold it. This is experienced as threat, against which are defences raised. Not least being a pre-emptive strike on reality by a mind set in its own judgemental perception-response as justified and real. Distancing and masking operate a withdrawal of and from intimacy of felt participance to a defence system predicated on or stamped by its past, as basis for fear, pain and loss, along with bolstering and boosting controls against reliving or being overwhelmed by fear, pain and loss. The self we make or mis-take as real in image is an adaptation to and learning of a masked reality. It is not who or what we are as we can observe it in act. But it was made to ‘make you safe’ in terms of both… Read more »
The people who rule over us are not just irredeemably corrupt, arrogant, ignorant and incompetent (though they are all those things, in spades.)
They are also simply evil and satanic.
Literally.
Many are actual satanists and paedophiles.
Flying monkeys (by the way). They are still lying to protect themselves and their credibility. CDC added Covid “vaccines” to the regular vaccination regiment for children a week or so ago. As evil as it gets. No one noticed in the MSM and only a few alt media sources noticed. What the fuck. The culture battle is raging. If you are a white straight male you might as well commit suicide. According to Biden, we are the cause of all of the World’s problems. Not making this up. He just reiterated it this week. He said, “there are still white people that want to lynch black people”. One demented gator hunter living along a bayou somewhere in the deep south apparently represents all straight white males now. I must admit, there are some people that need to be lynched (figuratively). We know who they are. Start with Fauci. Add in… Read more »
Along with the clot shot’s addition to the vaccination schedule, the march toward vax passes and digital IDs in the US continues with this surveillance and tracking program: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/government-tracking-unvaccinated-icd-codes-cola/
Fuck ’em all.
Is there no end to the crap? I just stumbled on a book called Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency by Barnabas Calder. The author’s name must be an alias. Or an anagram.
Or an acrostic
Am I being paranoid?
Damn shame about the downfall of Turkey. Erdogan had actually walked out of a WEF meeting in disgust. Now I suppose he or his replacement will have to give up their bit of sovereignty.
Yes, I DO think Turkey was haarped, and what a fearsome message it sends other nonconforming nations.
The Problem Is Civil Obedience, Howard Zinn: https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnproblemobedience.html Excerpt: I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power, that the wealth is distributed in this country and the world in such a way as not simply to require small reform but to require a drastic reallocation of wealth. … And our topic is topsy-turvy: civil disobedience. As soon as you say the topic is civil disobedience, you are saying our problem is civil disobedience. That is not our problem…. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience.… Read more »
In propaganda, promoting paranoia is common. It helps to extract taxes, and to sell products, wars, decreasing government services and even depopulation.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (the book) is simultaneously a rejection of Medical Materialism and an acknowledgement that most people are too conditioned to accept that rejection. The Lion, Scarecrow and Tin Woodman think that Courage, Wisdom and Love are material entities which can be bestowed by some priestly physician. And despite demonstrating the presence of these capacities, they still insist on the pseudo-medical treatment by the Wizard – to which the Wizard obliges.
If you want to better understand the development of propaganda, the health industry, cognitive dissonance, and mind influence and control, watch this documentary.
Minds of Men
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQucESRF3Sg&w=560&h=315%5D
Down vote means what exactly?
Try harder at coming up with some kind of argument.
Don’t take it personally. IA downvote from the ignorant. ‘Minds of Men’ is one of my favorite documentaries too. Cold war mind control made manifest.
Downvote is often just idiocy; ignore it. Thanks for posting the video on early CIA mindcontrol techniques. I’ve been convinced for 50 years that CIA was always the direct action arm of the criminal conspiracy. Just think– it’s our labor, money & even secret budgets that support it.
The idea that conspiracy theory and paranoia go together is just another ad hominem attack campaign on those that have healthy amounts of distrust and use cortical thinking to make their mind up.
Paranoia is actually a mental disorder and not a healthy mental state.
The words they choose, and how they “spell” them in a “sentence”, matters.
The CIA are the ones that created the term Conspiracy Theorist, to cast shade on those that questioned the official narrative of the assassination of JFK.
We now KNOW that the CIA assassinated JFK.
LET THAT SINK IN.
Good article. Important topic. Especially for dystopian/alternative media.
My guess would be that there’s a distinction between a cultivated paranoia (the consequence of repeatedly imbibing paranoid ideas), the clinical condition (where the disconnect with physical reality is clear to all) and justifiable ‘paranoia’ (where there are actually real people out to get you).
Distinguishing between them is, I suppose, where it starts to get complicated.
Gogol wrote a great story in his ‘Diary of a Madman’, where he enters into the mind of a madman – a low-level clerk who starts signing his name as the King of Spain. Not paranoia per se, but an exploration of the mad mind nevertheless (the original Greek meaning of ‘paranoia’)
The Game (1997)
How to Stop Worrying
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Off topic.
‘Bond villain’ DNA could transform cancer treatment, scientists say….
That’s from the big G’s web page, talking about the big C. One can envisage old Klaus, thinly grinning, whilst stroking a crusty red king specimen astride his lap:
‘You will own nothing, and be snappy…’
‘You will catch nothing, and be snappy…’
Would be even snappier.
Yeah I read that one and for once resisted. It’s beyond stupid now. It’s just boring.
Where do we start? Will the karmic justice of the jab be sufficiently Biblical? Maybe we should go straight to the Rapturous Reset? The ultimate eye-for-an-eye materialist answer to a materialist fixation.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “MENTAL ILLNESS” !
It is a logical fallacy; a category error. So-called “schizophrenia” and “psychosis” are just labels dreamt up white-coated materialists; supported by a largely fascist populace as a way of stigmatising the misfits while paying homage to their medicalist religion. The labelling is a “political event” which has social consequences, but “schizophrenia” and “psychosis” are not objective phenomena. They do not possess agency – causal or otherwise.
I suppose you have not come across a violent case outside a hospital setting.
“Mental illness” is a logical impossibility. “Illness” is a medical concept; i.e. it belongs in the material realm. “Mental” is a metaphysical concept. Combining the two together is a category error; and it therefore cannot exist. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake — Thomas Szasz (~2010): In 1967, my efforts to undermine the moral legitimacy of the alliance of psychiatry and the state suffered a serious blow: the creation of the antipsychiatry movement by David Cooper (1931–1986) and Ronald D. Laing (1927–1989). Instead of advocating the abolition of Institutional Psychiatry, they sought to replace it with their own brand of psychiatry, which they called “Anti-Psychiatry.” By means of this dramatic misnomer, they attracted attention to themselves and deflected attention from what they did, which included coercions and excuses based on psychiatric authority and power. Antipsychiatry is a type of psychiatry: The psychiatrist qua health-care professional is a fraud, and so too is the antipsychiatrist.… Read more »
“The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.” Sigmund Freud
ah…Sickman Fraud…just the ticket…to a life ruined by a pervert from beyond the grave
Ad hominem towards a dead person.
I endured some MSM TV output recently and the amount of embedded propaganda about things like climate change in the scripts is off the charts. It is military grade brainwashing. It’s constant and relentless, whether it’s the news or the soaps. This is absolutely war, being waged in the UK by the British war machine. It’s the only language these twats know. Go to London and it’s all about war – all the buildings and statues, the Cabinet War Rooms. They are fucked in the head. Their vile culture is increasingly antihuman and antifreedom. Yuri Bezmenov shines some light on how we got to this stage. “Most of it is done by Americans to Americans.” (the scriptwriters for Eastenders are enemies of the British people, whether they know it or not. The people working for the councils are no better.) He’s talking about brainwashing when he says that, and the… Read more »
The conditioning started over a century ago (i.e. from before the Bolsheviks existed) with such notions as “mental illness”, “mental health”, “public health” and “the health adviser of the community”. They knew exactly what they were doing when they created the notion of “health expert”. Legions of medical professionals were bribed into acceptance and the people needing sanitation, decent housing, occasional medical treatment, etc would not object to the ambiguousness of the “health” concept. Note the implicit definition of “socialism” in The Great State. It is NOT class-based. Rather, it is Socialism vs Individualism (a.k.a. Collectivism vs Liberty). — G.K. Chesterton – Eugenics and Other Evils (1922) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25308 We now pass from mere individual men who obviously cannot be trusted, even if they are individual medical men, with such despotism over their neighbours; and we come to consider whether the Eugenists have at all clearly traced any more imaginable public… Read more »
My sympathy has worn thin. I have been trying to have sensible conversations with these people since 9/11 and they don’t want to know. They do however take great pride in ridiculing, belittling and assuming I am crazy in response to genuine attempts to wake them up. So not much sympathy for them, I’m afraid. My anger is however aimed at the people doing this, and this reminds me to say that the state of Israel is central to all this war and 9/11. For example, it has been proven that Israel played a central role in the 9/11 attacks. This film is a very good introduction to this. And as the author of the film explains, the Middle East wars were all about laying the groundwork for a stronger and expanding Israel. We know this because they published documents explaining exactly what they wanted – and that’s exactly what… Read more »
And this shows the kind of mentality I am talking about, lust for the invasion of Iraq oozes from these Neocon war criminals. Penned by leading Neocon, Robert Kagan in 1998. These people are as guilty as sin, yet to date, haven’t been questioned or put on trial. Bombing Iraq Isn’t Enough – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Bombing Iraq Isn’t Enough Reprinted with permission of the New York Times, January 30, 1998 Saddam Hussein must go. This imperative may seem too simple for some experts and too daunting for the Clinton Administration. But if the United States is committed, as the President said in his State of the Union Message, to insuring that the Iraqi leader never again uses weapons of mass destruction, the only way to achieve that goal is to remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power. Any policy short of that will fail. The good news is… Read more »
The massive western media reports of the war in Russia is a case in point of structured delusions. You only have to browse the newspaper lunacy to surmise that the west is losing its marbles. Take for example the Daily Express or any other mainstream media outlet. According to the Daily Express the Russian army is being forced into a headlong retreat losing tens of thousands of its army, 40% of its tanks and mass desertions and Putin is having a nervous breakdown. Yes, the Ukie army is within striking distance to Moscow. And this is not far from abject schizophrenia. Here is a sample from the Daily Express. Russia is facing guaranteed “turmoil” as a result of the devastating impact which Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago has had on the country’s finances, a Kyiv-based economist has said. Vladyslav Vlasiuk said it was the Russian people who will ultimately… Read more »
The Russian forces are doomed to defeat (according to the Express) because they have run out of socks and condoms. Putin is actually dead and has been replaced by a body double, though there is also a plane waiting on the tarmac to fly him out to South America.
Zelensky is about to ride into Moscow on a white horse at the head of his million man army, led by the Heroes of Snake Island and the Ghost of Kiev.
“If you think about it, most evil villain characters in books and movies are a single person—one demented mind that has a bunch of minions supporting his or her evil ways (like the Wicked Witch of the West and her Winkies and Winged Monkeys). Once that singular person is defeated the world then relaxes and returns to its previous goodness.” This is not science fiction or a film, what we must never forget is we are dealing with multigenerational evil, demonic forces, when one dies (like David Rockefeller) there are others like (Bill Gates Jeffrey Epstein) to take their place. Also the wicked ones have access to advanced technologies and mind control techniques to control “reality” to gaslight and manipulate us. In the midst of this all pervasive psychological warfare, small wonder many of us question/doubt our sanity. This is the essence and goal of gaslighting, propaganda and mind control!… Read more »
The easiest way to avoid even the slightest thought of any paranoia or madness is to collect the facts read them and keep them, so you can remind yourself.
Also, don’t Gish Gallop yourself, it’s bad enough when other people do it to you.
the world is going through a human population overshoot episode right now I might be inclined to lend a receptive ear to statements like this, but based on what objective metrics has this conclusion been drawn? The peak oil allegations and their ramifications as per the stuff on this website, which basically says that it’s impossible to sustain an economic model that relies on constantly increasing consumption/production and therefore use of energy which, combined with growing debt (i.e. production/use of energy shifted to the future), is untenable? Is the problem population overshoot, which implies that people are fucking morons given to the aforementioned economic model, or is it that the number of people is basically okay, and the problem is the economic model? I don’t think that the answer is as simple as people on either side of the fence think. Simply because we know shit about the real availability… Read more »
Conspiracy by Julian Huxley (1957)
https://archive.org/details/NewBottlesForNewWine/page/n5/mode/2up?q=trans
I sometimes remember this title on an Atlantic magazine cover circa November, 2015.
“If you’re not paranoid, you’re crazy”
How to Protect Your Personal Data—and Humanity—From the Government – The Atlantic
The article is long-winded, yet worthy of examination. It closes with this: >
“Paranoia, we scorned you, and we’re sorry. We feared you were crazy, but now we’re crazy too, meaning we’re ready to listen, so, please, let’s talk. It’s time. It’s past time. Let’s get to know each other. Quietly, with the shades drawn, in the dark, in the space that is left to us, so small, now nearly gone.”
Many decades ago Scottish psychiatrist R.D.Laing made the observation that the greatest danger to society is not posed by those diagnosed as “officially mad,” but rather by we the supposedly completely “normal” human beings. He contrasted the relative danger posed by the delusions of a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks he has a bomb inside of his body vs the danger posed by the “normal” well trained bomber pilot who on receiving his “orders” will fly his nuclear armed plane across the globe and dutifully drop bombs that will annihilate the lives of a million fellow human beings – simply because he was told to do so. “Normality” as complete madness.
What would be the “sane” choice?
Transhumanist Reset vs Rapturous Reset
Careful, extensive, and long term analysis resulting in sensible and fact based conclusions is not paranoia. This is like using the term conspiracy theorist, which we know was created and facilitated by the CIA, Mossad and others to muddy the waters and paint those seeking the truth as crazy. Let’s not voluntarily throw paranoia into the mix. Those who wonder whether every death is caused by the vaccine aren’t being paranoid (maybe some are), they’re viewing the situation based on the known facts. They’re being skeptical based on known facts. It’s like going to the grocery every week and seeing the prices climb and climb and thinking you’re just being paranoid. That’s just not the case. The only reason I might have feelings of going nuts is because there are so many lazy, stupid people falling for the same bullshit time after time. They’re the ones keeping this rolling along.… Read more »
I don’t think paranoia is the main problem for people opposing the NWO agenda; it’s isolation. It’s WEF programs entering your workplace, championed by your coworkers. It’s friends and family embracing ruling class agendas, slogans and brainwashing. It’s the difficulty of avoiding the imposed New Normal policies in daily life. It’s unrelenting.
The indifference is maddening. I frequently give the example of the seat belt laws in the U.S. The primary rationale for the law is to keep us safe. They try to obfuscate that with bs facts that say money is saved, less people in hospitals, less severity of injuries (sound familiar?), but in the end it’s about keeping us safe. If you don’t keep yourself safe, the cops can pull you over and give you a ticket. If you don’t pay the ticket, they can impound your car. To keep you safe. And no one says a fucking word.
Many of the more outlandish claims of ‘conspiracy theorists’ have actually been planned in gov’t spook depts. They are there to muddy the waters, spread derision, and send inquisitive people down empty rabbit holes. This wastes time and ultimately puts people off seeking alternative answers because the gov’t nutjobs are mixed in with the real thing.
These spook driven narratives are also there to fuck with the head and cause conflict between the very people who have taken the time to investigate. So instead of being united at seeking the correct info and assimilating that, truth seekers are fragmented into factions, all with different theories, instead of all with the same correct theory derived at independently.
The one thing that makes sense of anything and everything that appears senseless is the one thing the “Alt-Right” will not abide: that human nature is flawed.
“Oh God no!” they will cry. “It’s not humans that are the problem – it’s this human or that human or these humans or those humans! But NOT humans at all!”
Okay. Whatever you say.
“The one thing that makes sense of anything and everything that appears senseless is the one thing the “Alt-Right” will not abide: that human nature is flawed.”
In the current climate, at least, I don’t think it’s the “alt right” that thinks that way; the Utopian idealists are largely on the left. They’re the “life’s not fair” gang, always trying to improve upon and perfect nature.
This comment was written partially in regard to the recent release of an article in the British medical journal, The Lancet, which finally admitted the decades long obvious fact that natural immunity is superior to vaccine immunity (even if the vaccine is not a deliberate, intentional bioweapon aimed at genocide.) It is aimed to some extent at a US audience and the USA pseudo legal structure.. Why must we rely on these puppets of global criminals, such as the Lancet, to authenticate **for us** what we already know? Why must we donate from our diminishing savings to organizations and lawyers to fight these criminals in the rigged courts while they are backed by the warp speed printing press of the Federal Reserve and other national central banks? We are losing this war of attrition by design. They are a global criminal cabal that has been planning this operation for decades.… Read more »
My paranoia is galopping, must be a new variant.
I got to a point where I doubt even of some of my immaginary friends, here at offg.
If stress or weather can cause heart attacks in children and sports people, a “variant” can certainly cause paranoia.
Twitter promoting this but not, for example, the Oxford protest against 15 minute cities:
https://notinwestminster.wordpress.com/notwestminster-2023/lightning-talks-2023/
Lightning is of course the Luciferian symbol. This sort of thing is the replacement they’re going to offer to national government. It’s pseudo-localism with the question kept within a “how do we implement sustainability?” paradigm.
Infallible litmus test: Go to search window, type in “covid” and examine results. In this case, this:
Yes I’ve got their number.
But I’d like to join them and insert my photo into their profile page: