Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

Just because you're paranoid
don't mean they're not after you.

Just because you're paranoid
Don't mean they're not after you.

It’s a long step down the road to paranoia, but it’s been a proverb for a hundred years that being paranoid does not mean that they aren’t out to get you.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy

You say paranoia, I say surveillance state. Worried about being tracked by hidden cameras stealthy air-borne remotely piloted vehicles, and chips implanted in your skull? You’re merely a realist.

Paranoia is infectious. It’s also an incredibly useful tool. If you can make people afraid enough, uncertain enough, they will simply stop moving.

Yes, I'm paranoid — but am I paranoid enough?

"Paranoia has its downsides as an agency in daily life, or in the political sphere of collective action, which finds itself beset everywhere by the nightmarish influence of conspiracy thinking (they call it theory, but theories exist to be tested, and conspiracy thinking exists never to be tested, and globally ignores the results of tests imposed by others). The suspicion that malign operators are responsible for every one of the injustices and heartbreaks of existence is a consoling view, a balm to bleak glimpses of the void behind our reality. It's brave to pursue truth, and brave to pursue and expose tricky and well-hidden bad guys (Nazi doctors, Pentagon intelligence-distorters, etc.). It's not brave to think tricky, well-hidden bad guys are the whole truth of what's out there. It might even be bravery's opposite. Or maybe it should go under the name "religion.

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

Embrace pronoia
which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that
the entire universe is conspiring
behind your back
to make you a success.

Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears