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September 4, 2015
Sometimes the truth has to be delivered no matter how much it pains the messenger to say it. When something feels wrong and there is no place to get answers there is room for speculation and sometimes that speculation sends you on a trip to Planet Paranoid. Joseph Heller, the author of the book, Catch 22 once said, “Just because your paranoid does not mean they are not after you. There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.” It is hard in this time of apocalyptic surprises to keep a rational mind. The word paranoia today seems to be another word for heightened awareness. Having a wonderful partnership with paranoia in the world today is fear. Fear of reality, fear of the truth, fear of terrorist attacks, and fear of hard economic times. These are rational fears, but consensus psychology copes with fear in many strange ways. First we seem to be denial or that what is happening will work itself out and when it does we will achieve victory over whatever is causing our fear.
The average American is now spending more than 5 hours a day watching their twitter feeds, perusing Facebook and sending their latest recordings and pictures of police brutality and kitty pictures on Instagram and Snapchat. It seems that we are desperate to be seen, and we are unaware that this also includes being recorded and annotated in some file by an alphabet agency that has a keen interest in who you associate with, and what your core values are. The truth is much of what is happening is a reaction to living in a poorer and more violent world. It is a refuge or a default where we hope that the more serious issues of the world never find us. Like burying one’s head in the sand, most of America now buries their heads in their smart phones. Their information sources are still being tampered with cleverly and covertly by paid plants, trolls, and spies that are literally warping the zeitgeist with disinformation that allows for malfeasance and corruption in our government and in other areas of the bureaucratic stranglehold that sets agendas for what the powers that be think the country should care about. In some cases those who are looking down at their cell phones and I-pads take a moment to look up. When they do they realize that something above them seems to be out of place. That the moon doesn’t look right, or the sun doesn’t seem to be setting in the right position, and that the stars in the sky have somehow moved into a triangle formation and that now it is time to push the record button and notify all your friends in social media that something is up there sending a wave of uncertainty.