On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, S Yasir Husain wrote:

> I am, and we are, happy to be the r-raw crowd-mind, and I take the
> paranoia in this tower of babel/babble, and associated delusions of
> towerful greatness to be a fairly accurate description of the writer who
> is being persecuted by the crowd-mind. This is uncannily precise. The
> writer does not know any exit from the tower. Although I do wish it were
> a tower of song rather than the crashing pans of the tower kitchen at
> the top.
>
> There is always an exit, and
> you ARE innocent. (hard to believe? There IS a double-bind here).
>
> [so this is neurotic not psychotic as the explanation was offered by the
> writer himself - or is it herself.]

Uh, no. And tis was writtten with specific individuals in mind.
Not soliciting 'opinions' on paranoia.

> —–Original Message—–
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> Of -IID42 Kandinskij @27+
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> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Mag G2K / NN, the awful awful art-world,
> politicians, west, east, xx, xy, xyz, etc. etc.
>
> Probably the most telling point of likeness between the crowd-mind and
> the
> psychoneurosis - paranoia, especially - is the "delusion of
> persecution."
> In cases of paranoia the notion that the patient is the victim of all
> sorts of intrigue and persecution is so common as to be a distinguishing
> symptom of this disease. Such delusions are known to be defenses, or
> compensation mechanisms, growing out of the patient's exaggerated
> feeling
> of self-importance. The delusion of grandeur and that of being
> persecuted
> commonly go together. The reader will recall the passage quoted from the
> pamphlet given to me by a typical paranoiac. The author of the document
> mentioned feels that he has a great mission, that of exposing and
> reforming the conditions in hospitals for the insane. He protests his
> innocence. In jail he feels like Christ among his tormentors.
>
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