Reply #32: Frankly [View All]

[Liberation Angel]

If you are not paranoid you are not paying attention.


Words beginning in para- abound, from paramedic to paralegal to paranormal. The prefix "para-" comes from the Greek for "beyond" or "beside", while "noia" is derived from the Greek "noos", meaning "mind". So paranoia literally rendered means something like "out of one's mind" or "beyond one's mind". Hence the phrases "out of your mind", or more loosely "beside oneself with anger", or "lost my mind".

The English word "ecstasy" is derived from the Greek "ekstasis", which roughly means to stand outside (of oneself or one's mind). Ecstasy has a much better feeling about it than does paranoia, yet each word has similar early connotations - madness as double-edged sword of both terror and rapture.

What this is all about (such an assassination - of this is what it was) is TERROR.

Murder for political reasons strikes terror into the heart of those who also may become victims. it quiets them. It makes them hide and retreat and stay away from the perpetrators. It is the exact Nazi/Fascist mindset that they WANT us to accept.

Whether or not this was a murder the fact is that political murder is part of our history. All of us on the pacifist left are vulnerable when we are unafraid to speak out and act.

So this COULD be a message to all of us and anyone who rises to the leadership.

Basically Paranois means we are "out of our minds" with fear, with anxiety, with concern.

BUT, as with ecstasy, it does not mean there is NOT could reason for us to be in such a mental state.

the history of Naziism and Fascism has taught us that such murders happen, they are meant to terrorize us and to weaken us so that we cannot fight or oppose the terror, that it can strike anyone anywhere at any time, and that we are powerless to stop it.

In such a circumstance, being paranoid is not delusional, it is the appropriate psychic and emotional response to terror. We SHOULD be beside ourselves with anger and even fear and hostility.

Paranoia is nt a bad thig, necessarily, but it is a label to make you question your own mind and the rationality of your perspective. It is a tactic to make you look weak and delusional when in fact you are smart and correct and even wise about these things.

Yeah I AM out of my mind over such things.

THAT is a normal response.

So is the seeking of justice and truth and punishment for the evil perpetrators and Nazi like zombies of the Cheney death squads