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Bumper sticker seen today: “Humpty-Dumpty was PUSHED!”

Conspiracy theories can be quite comforting. Paranoia provides a logical world-view so things make sense. As long as somebody out there is trying to get you, there’s a reasonable explanation for all the crap happening to you. Everything’s connected because it’s all against you.

Thomas Pynchon, writing in Gravity’s Rainbow, describes a more modern — yet deeply ancient — terror: anti-paranoia. Anti-paranoia is the fear that nothing is connected, good and bad things happen randomly with no real or logical explanation whatsoever. Far more frightening world to consider.

BTW, another bumper sticker on the same car read: “I’d turn back if I were you.” Mind you, if anti-paranoia holds true, that wouldn’t be any help at all. There’s just as likely to be problems, disasters and catastrophes behind you as in front.

Of course, there’s the old saying: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you.” I mean, look what happened to Humpty Dumpty: “had a great fall”?

Oh really? How? What kinda explanation is that, anyway?

Be careful out there folks.

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