the more you realize the paranoid delusions people used to call “crazy schizo shit” are actually probably true

That's one of my biggest peeves. Pre-surveilance economy, the crazies really were paranoid. There were not cameras in their walls! Then, the whole ass world went, "Hey! What if we make their paranoia into actual reality?" Now, here we are. Maybe not cameras in the walls, but in every other damn thing. Your vacuum? Check. Your car? Check. Kids toys? Check. Sunglasses? Check.

That's made it harder to tell the diff between ppl who are actually paranoid ("vaccines are implanting Bill Gates tracking chips in your veins bro!") and those who aren't, but hate commercial surveilence. Plus, those who hate it, sound almost like an oldschool paranoid, to anyone who doesn't pay attention to know how pervasive it is now.

It's a fucked timeline, I'll tell ya what.