Remember: Just because you're paranoid.....

.............doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Bacon brilliantly prefigured, by more than three centuries, modern behavioral psychology's notion that humans have a proclivity to "suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."  Man is little more than a pattern-seeking primate, with an unerring ability to see connections and suspect conspiracies where none exist.

-William J. Berstein, The Birth of Plenty:  How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created