If someone writes in a paranoid manner about paranoia, do they get a hat or sticker or button?
One easily can imagine a tyrant with worldwide ambitions and high-tech capabilities scheming even now to pull off the greatest hoax of all time, after years of conditioning the public to anticipate precisely such a crisis. This may sound like the ultimate techno-paranoid nightmare, yet it’s consistent with the high volume of current warnings that the end is nigh.