Paranoia is one of the biggest blocking forces in alt-tech and radical spaces. It breeds mistrust, isolation, and internal sabotage, making collective action almost impossible. Some caution is necessary, we’re not naïve, but when paranoia becomes the default posture, it hardens into control. At that point, it stops being defensive and starts being corrupting.
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@hamishcampbell Structural critique is not paranoia.
Naming incentives, power effects, and predictable failure modes does not require mistrust or fear.
Conflating analysis with paranoia risks discouraging the very feedback that prevents informal control and myth making.
@warmsignull it becomes paranoia when it #blocks
@hamishcampbell a little chicken and egg there with the paranoia maybe, but with you in the broad strokes.🙃