Change is happening and old structures are falling in the form of a “Death of a Thousand Cuts.” In other words one grand act is not occuring but a multitude of small expressions on the...

Paranoia, he said, was fundamentally egocentric, and every conspiracy theory served in some way to aggrandize the believer.But he was also fond of saying, at other times, that even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.

Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.