Word: paranoias
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...awaiting extradition and offered shelter in Reykjav?k. No one is too upset about this arrangement because he's clearly a sick man. His insane rants about Jews and America, his choice of a squalid, furtive life by a man who could have lived in princely admiration, his paranoia--he had the fillings in his teeth removed because if "somebody took a filling out and put in an electronic device, he could influence your thinking"--evoke pity and puzzlement...
...which the other guy really is after you. The essence of the game is constant struggle against an adversary who, by whatever means of deception and disguise, is entirely, relentlessly, unfailingly dedicated to your destruction. It is only a board, but it is a field of dreams for paranoia...
Irrational fear, paranoia and apocalyptic statements have abounded. More than one normally understated scientist has termed AIDS "the disease of the century." Others have, in the tradition of divine justification, viewed it as God's revenge on sodomites and junkies. There have been far more pervasive epidemics, certainly. In 1918 and '19, Spanish flu killed more than 500,000 Americans and ultimately 20 million worldwide. A million Russians may have died of cholera in 1848 alone. But during these scourges there were always the possibility and hope that the fever would lift, strength would return, and life would...
When people prep you on what to expect when you're expecting, they enumerate the physical horrors--headaches, hot flashes, shortness of breath, back pain, leg pain, groin pain and a whole raft of digestive disorders. What they don't warn you about is the extreme paranoia that sets in about the potential threat to your fetus from everything you eat, drink, breathe, wear or even think about. Forget alcohol, cigarettes and Valium. When a woman is on the nest, the inadvertent ingestion of cheese, fish, undercooked meat or unfiltered tap water is enough to provoke a shrieking phone call...
This is not to suggest paranoia, yet a definite balance needs to be maintained. We as a society should be a bit more humble in assessing our current predominance and a bit more reluctant to pat ourselves on the back for solving all of the world’s problems. The level of economic inequality that currently exists is without historical precedent, and it is certainly within reason that, if the condition of the three billion people that subsist on less than two dollars a day fails to improve, our cherished international free market system could prove untenable. Many times...