3rd November 2016, 5:48 AM
I think you and I are working under two different definitions of paranoia. I'm using the "a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system" definition, and you're using the other definition of just a general distrust and fear of certain groups, like the hacking fears of the early 2000's. Never mind that though, I'm not REALLY all that afraid, but it is certainly a possibility considering that actual people HAVE been attacking others for their political beliefs this cycle. It's just that so far those attacks have been relegated to political rallies. At the very least, it isn't worth putting my thoughts out there. Has anyone, ever, and I mean EVER, been convinced by a bumper sticker? Have YOU ever been influenced by a bumper sticker? They don't do anything! Fundamentally, no one cares about some random person's opinion just because they happen to be stopped behind them in traffic. Why should they be? Also, no bumper sticker has EVER had a good argument printed on it. Not once.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)