Positive Paranoia

It’s July 4^th, a day to celebrate the wonders of America and the rights we all enjoy.

Kinda.

This Fourth of July, it may be time to celebrate the right to be paranoid.

Paranoia has a bad reputation and deservedly so.

People are out to get me, why are they talking about me, I think they’re planning to do something to me.

These were the hallmarks of a psychological issue, in some cases severe to the point of needing medication.  Of course, that didn’t’ stop The Onion from having from with it when The Onion was good and when laughter was allowed:

But what happens when paranoia is not necessarily a mental disorder but a prelude to the truth?

The pandemic showed anyone who was paying attention that things that formerly were considered fever dreams or delusions are far closer to reality than what official officials are saying.

The “vaccine” (in quotes because it’s not) was touted as the wonder shot that would return the world to normal.

But it didn’t because it didn’t stop people from getting COVID, it didn’t stop people from spreading COVID, and it has a much, much higher “adverse reaction” rate than other real actual vaccines.  The polio vaccine has a reaction rate of about 1 in 1.9 million; the COVID shot has reportedly had a ratio somewhere in the 1 in 900 range (admittedly a tough estimate to pin down for obvious reasons, but then there’s this:

German Scientists Uncover Evidence that EU Pfizer-BioNTech Batches Included Placebos.

Whatever the final ratio is, it will show the COVID shot could easily be about 1,000 or so times more problematic than a regular real vaccine.

And if you said that two years ago – or even today or probably even tomorrow – you are deemed paranoid.

And if you were a doctor in California, you could have put your license in jeopardy.

And if you were an employee in California, you could have lost your job.

The Twitter Files clearly lay out the existence of a coordinated, taxpayer-funded effort to censor those very same taxpayers.  From denying access to the electronic public square to tarring people as, well, paranoid, to damaging livelihoods if you said the wrong thing, to directly snooping on what you are saying, the censorship-industrial complex is paranoia come to life.

Worried that the government is trying to turn your children against you?  A few years, a sign of paranoia, a delusional statement.

Now, an accurate description of the public school system, here in California and around the nation.

Concerned the government may want to track your location at all times?  Then, the ravings of a maniac.

Now, a reason to check the settings on your phone and very soon a reality check if you have a car with the impending transponder-based Vehicle Miles Traveled tax system.

Question whether or not the public health system truly has the public’s best interests at heart?  Then, you were an uncaring deranged lunatic who wanted to kill grandma and who wanted a million Typhoid Marys roaming the streets. 

Now, an unquestionable proven reality due to the personal, societal, familial, and educational  destruction caused by the pandemic mandates.

With most of the fears of the paranoid having come true in the past few years, it could mean that we need to re-appraise the very nature of paranoia itself.

Is it a disorder or an ability to see the future?

With so many other rights being chipped away – speech, thought, movement, autonomy – it may be time to start relying on the one right the elites have yet to figure out how to oppress:

The right to be paranoid.