Psychologists Weigh In On 9/11

[Jan Klimkowski]

In Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media , the idiot lackey, Elaine Showalter, claimed everything from Dissociative Identity Disorder to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to Gulf War Syndrome was a media-driven manifestation of Victorian hysteria.

The medical definition of paranoia is so useful to Them:

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV), the diagnostic standard for mental health professionals in the United States, lists the following symptoms for paranoid personality disorder:
suspicious; unfounded suspicions; believes others are plotting against him/her
preoccupied with unsupported doubts about friends or associates
reluctant to confide in others due to a fear that information may be used against him/her
reads negative meanings into innocuous remarks
bears grudges
perceives attacks on his/her reputation that are not clear to others, and is quick to counterattack
maintains unfounded suspicions regarding the fidelity of a spouse or significant other

I prefer Thomas Pynchon's version scattered throughout Gravity's Rainbow:

Proverbs for Paranoids:
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.
The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
You hide, they seek.
Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.