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(Mods - wasn't sure where to stick this, so please relocate according to what seems most suitable).
Had to go into the West End today, right by Warren Street as it happens, and the paranoia is so palpable it's actaully physical - like a low buzzing vibration in the centre of the head. Even i couldn't effectively read on the bus...the temptation to glance up and size every new passenger up thoroughly is just unavoidable. Inevitably, certain ethnic and other signifiers are gleaning more attention than other's...What is the sum effect of this likely to harbour in the days to come?
Maybe Ganesh can shed some light on the psychosis of paranoia? (Applogies if the terms are incorrect)...I recall reading a Freudian analysis of paranoia as internal hatreds and prejudices projected onto the other, and thus a reflection of one's own feelings about others, rather than the inverse that is obvious - the feelings one has about other's relationship to oneself.
But surely the current climate is a fairly exceptional case?
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