Tag Archives: Paranoia

Paranoia in the age of rising bullying

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Grecia H.

All of the readings on paranoia and it’s link to humiliation were very interesting, but I think that Muesnter and Lotto’s essay brought it all together. The language was more manageable and it’s clarity made me understand it more. The … Continue reading →

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The Prevalence of Paranoia

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Mac Warren

Out of this week’s readings, I found Bettina Muenster and David Lott’s “The Social Psychology of Humiliation and Revenge” to be the most engaging and insightful.  Instead of relying on hyper-theoretical language that cannot be proved empirically, the duo focuses … Continue reading →

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The Ring of Fire

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Sam Barnes

Acceptance of the fundamentalist mindset requires that rage and paranoia be regarded as intrinsic psychological phenomena, present across many spectrums of personality and sociological order.  The group, however, is exempted from these categorizations. Though it is capable of unleashing great … Continue reading →

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The Social Network, Strozier, and Scientific Sloppiness

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Mac Warren

Having recently seen The Social Network, Charles B. Strozier’s essay, “The Apocalyptic Other,” was eerily pertinent.  The film, which focuses on two lawsuits brought against Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) – one from two Harvard classmates who allege that … Continue reading →

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Paranoia: the Self, Divided

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Sam Barnes

Whilst warrior Christ was busy establishing his banal utopia in the fiction aisle of our Doomsday curricula, Charles Strozier was profiling a darker side of “things that must shortly come to pass” in his essays on the apocalyptic roots of the … Continue reading →

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