[ExI] How to avoid becoming a victim of street crime
Stathis Papaioannou
stathisp at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 02:26:27 UTC 2009
2009/9/2 Post Futurist <p0stfuturist at yahoo.com>:
> "better paranoid than dead."
> Thanks ever so much, John.
> Above is the most important truism of all time. As character Gordon Sims on
> Cincinnati WKRP (KRP was possibly an acronym for 'crap') said,
> "there is no such thing as paranoia, being paranoid is just good thinking."
>
> He was absolutely correct.
I see paranoid people for a living, and I can tell you, it isn't good
thinking. It's also very hard to pin down without resorting to a
normative definition: paranoid is what people think is paranoid.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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