(02-08-2021, 02:12 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-07-2021, 09:11 PM)random3 Wrote: If you escaped Cambodia in 1977 then you might take tyranny more seriously.
...or you might see a devil behind every tree. If you escaped the Killing Fields, then you earned the right to be paranoid ... but you still are being paranoid. It's not a healthy way to be.
It reminds me of "Kat hak sung" From Urban Dictionary:
kathaksung
A man persecuted by Feds. Used to be labelled as "conspiracy nut", "paranoid"....
Judge by yourself by read his journal story "The dark side of US".
kathaksung is persecuted by Feds and a target of sully.
by Sung Kat Hak July 10, 2008
I remember seeing much the same style from the 1990's on. Yes, there are plenty of kooks out there, but the writing style is much the same. That entity comes up with crazy explanations for everything from Ruby Ridge to 9/11 to Sandy Hook to perhaps the Capitol attack. There are plenty of nutcases around, and I may have them confused (which is easy to do because they think much alike and expose little about their personal lives, or if they do I don't believe them*). These people need to take breaks from their 'cloisters of craziness'.
*I remember encountering some of those types who claim that they have scientific expertise and I have found a trick for tripping them up. I ask them what the integer of the inverse of x is. It should be as natural as falling off a rolling log in the river.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.