Paranoia Paranoia Amiri Kudura Barksdale Paranoia is the overstrain of the mind in its synthetic capacity. Synthesis is out of practice. In The Arrival , an ordinary movie wherein the main character is alleged to have been paranoid before he discovered the government's coverup of alien activity, i.e., before the government itself was taken over by aliens, the main character gives in to paranoia a bit too easily, has too-refined a skill at determining the real when on his own in the world of appearance, especially considering that he is a natural scientist, a person required to have an overdeveloped analytic capacity. But this character's uncanny independence could just be an accident.
Human beings are social animals.
We live in families, we intend to make ourselves happy with other members of our species. One ancient name for the other, homo, the most faithful descendant being l'homme, is far from serendipitous. They may as well be aliens. Homo is hetero. The protocynical thought that we hurt one another in looking for love is painful enough.