It leads to a climate of resentment, division, distrust, suspicion, and even paranoia. |
The narcissistic presumption of centrality that underpins paranoia here gives birth to semiotic solipsism. |
They do whatever it takes to paint the blackest possible picture and bind their supporters to them with unreasoning bonds of paranoia. |
Add to this a splash of alcoholism, a dash of paranoia and a dose of misogyny, and you have a pretty nasty piece of work. |
It's a thinly disguised form of discrimination that feeds on our paranoias. |
But it was part of Shakespeare's genius that he knew precise depths to which different slights and paranoias affected people at different stages of their lives. |