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Monday, October 27, 2008

Telegraph: This is the age of paranoia 

And you thought the Cold War was bad. Today "levels of paranoia and mistrust are much higher than previously thought and are increasing," according to Britain's arch-conservative newspaper The Daily Telegraph:
Dr Daniel Freeman, a clinical psychologist from King's College London, warned: "These days, we daren't let our children play outside. We're suspicious of strangers. Security cameras are everywhere."

Dr Freeman, a Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellow, said: "We seem to have entered an age of paranoia. And the indications are that things may only get worse."

The psychologist has been researching paranoia for over a decade at the college's Institute of Psychiatry and found that one in four people have paranoid thoughts regularly.

Then why aren't all these people buying PARANOIA? Are they too suspicious? Maybe we should insert coded messages in the text: "This is the book the conspiracy doesn't want you to have." -- "Buy ten copies, one per day for ten days, and the Alliance will contact you." -- "Send messages to your allies via Actual Play threads on RPG.net."

(Via Reddit, where the comments are variously enlightening and otherwise.)
Posted by: Allen Varney / 11:59 AM

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