Word: paranoia
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What we have here are two mutually reinforcing strains of paranoia. On one hand, blacks are so suspicious of whites that many seriously believe aids is a genocidal plague cooked up by the cia. That is the flip side of the fear that makes many white women clutch their purses when a black man in a business suit gets on the elevator. Perhaps because of their minority status, most blacks who live with these grim realities have learned to keep their fears in perspective most of the time. They know their justified rage can be exploited, and have schooled themselves...
...suspect that to Bergman, paranoia always has some foundation in truth. He paints high society as truly parasitic and unpleasant, partially vindicating Johan. In short tracts discussing the role of the artist, Bergman - complained that 1960s' society forced the artist to prostitute himself for funding...
Alternatively, the Senate's proposed defense program (combined with Gingrich's desire to "eviscerate" the American role in international affairs) will come back to haunt us. In the vacuum of a powerless U.N., we will find ourselves a lonely superpower indeed, fraught with the paranoia that unregulated nuclear arsenals all over the Middle East are trained at the West, and that consequently, a new and much more dangerous arms race--which the Senate's misguided Cold War idealism has already endorsed--is the only solution left to our national security...
...sufficiency in the face of what they perceived as a Soviet threat. And they had carried out the blueprint. In 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt's Chief of Staff, Admiral William Leahy, was privately worried that Japan might "succeed in combining most of the Asiatic peoples against the whites." Such paranoia led to the internment of 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent in concentration camps; the fbi also kept close surveillance on alleged Japanese attempts to turn black Americans against the U.S. government. For its part, Japanese propaganda described Americans as racist, sex-obsessed, abortion-loving yaju (wild beasts...
Perhaps my paranoia was a result of my transition to college life. In high school, the bell would ring and a dozen of my friends would convene over our federally subsidized lasagna to have deep discussions about which teachers wore a hair piece. It's pretty hard to eat alone when there are only 200 people in your graduating class. Here, 1,600 people on different schedules rush in and out of the Union three times a day. Running into someone you know is improbable unless you have an elaborate system of e-mail and phone messages to coordinate...