That paranoia ennobles simple fears with sophisticated foresight became very clear with the cartoonish ascension of Qanon. Non-clinical paranoia allows the ordinary citizen in on a grand sf dystopic plot where they can cosplay and foment as if under the direction of the best of comicbook movie directors. The atmospheric zeitgeist form of paranoia allows full immersion in a charade that allows us to temporarily exit our mundane existences. Our bruised tiny selves busying with the task of outdoing the attention-getting reigning insanity in attempt to simultaneously snuff our suffocating boredom that we have forgotten how to climb out of by ourselves so that we are left with the option of perpetually entertaining ourselves to evade the dreaded ennui. It is narcissism dancing the most self-deceptive of dances. So, these days, it’s almost naive & ignorant to NOT be paranoid.
