This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Which Countries Are The Most Paranoid?
They say it's not paranoia if they are really out to get you.
Following first the 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden that the NSA was indeed out to get virtually every American, as well as last week's Federal appeal's court decision that the NSA's mass spying and collection of virtually all American phone records was not authorized by the Patriot Act and was thus illegal, for Americans it was confirmed that wasn't paranoia, but none other than the government was out to get them all.
As such, we find it somewhat odd that in the following chart showing global sentiment toward paranoia, measured by responses whether others are out to take advantage of you or, instead, others try to be fair, the US ranks almost smack in the middle, with respondents in countries such as Japan, Argentina, Turkey and even Germany ranking more "paranoid" than Americans (offset by such socialist utopias as Sweden and Norway, where altruism seems to reign supreme; the presence of China in this grouping is somewhat questionable).
Then again. considering the survey was originally conducted in 2011 by the World Values Survey organization, somehow we doubt the US would rank quite as netural now as it did 4 years ago.
Source: John Nelson
»
- 39218 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
The only way to prove it is not paranoia is if they actually get you.
Huh. Oldwood? Must be OK 'cause I'm still here. Oldwood? I dunno. Oh well..... Hey, is that rerun of Cops on where the nude dude with the mullet gets Tazed in the nuts?
Yabut...
Doesn't everybody want to taze a guy with a mullet in the nuts?
There are countless examples of historic events that if brought up at the time would have been considered conspiracy theories, many of them in the US, here are some examples.
Winning a war from the USA makes you confident... Vietnam
Yeah, I'm gonna have to call this the "British Bullshit Chart"...
Why? Because they are walking on shells with China, but where are they on the chart?
(Oh that's right, they aren't)
top ten are moronic muslims. why any one would buy that garbage is beyond me.
Indeed, something is VERY wrong with that chart. China and Vietnam have the least paranoid citizens? Hah. In both countries, they know full well that everyone is trying to take advantage of them -- melamine in infant formula, corrupt government officials, counterfeit products, and all the rest.
Whoever did the survey was either incompetent or delusional.
Rotten Aim.
Aim Rotten.
Now, that begets an interesting philosophical dilemma. Let's call it the Mullet Dilemma.
The answer is, of course, Yes.
Absolutely, everybody wants to Taze a guy with a mullet in the nuts.
So, perhaps whether he's nude or not isn't even Germain (unless of course, his name is Germain, in which case it then counts) to the exercise.
So, now that we've agreed (as in Axiomatic) that to be the case, that everybody wants to Taze the guy with the mullet in the nads., we ask ourselves....
Isn't the guy with the mullet included in the sample set of "everybody"(?) thereby making him desirous of Tazing guys with mullets in the nuts which obviously includes himself in the sample set of "dudes with mullets" and "dudes who want to Taze all dudes with mullets in the nuts."
Thus, we begin to appreciate the deliberations going on in the Sacred Halls of the ECB and European Parliament (whatever that shit is all about with the unelected guys with mullets running around trying to Taze one another in the nuts in some official capacity) as to the exactitude of the wording of the official position with respect to Greece as to "What do we say when we just plain fess up the the fact that it's impossibly fucked?" just like when you get Tazed in the nuts?
Ah yes, the innumerable benefits of bureaucracy.
Interesting thoughts.
Trouble is, they are the kind of thoughts that could lead to you disappearing up your own arsehole!
I struggle with such things on a daily basis, but then, applying logic to the world we are forced to live in is bound to cause the occasional (?) headeache.
I couldn't really say because I've never actually seen a guy with a mullet in his nuts.
But I'll ya one thing... if I did see a guy with a mullet in his nuts and I did own a tazer... then yes I'd probably taze his ass - especially if he was dancing around outside my window.
" Paranoia is just another word for longevity. "
~ Woody Allen
"we begin to appreciate the deliberations going on in the Sacred Halls of the ECB and European Parliament (whatever that shit is all about with the unelected guys with mullets running around trying to Taze one another in the nuts in some official capacity) as to the exactitude of the wording of the official position "
Pure poetry.
(doffs hat, nods in solemn appreciation of extreme absurdity rendered rational)
Government has murdered billions upon billions of people and starved a billion more , that is an indisputable historical fact.
Might as well get something for your tax money.
For that amount of money you should get at least 2 indisputable historical facts.
Governments lie . OK with you Mrs. Vinegar rice ?
I suspect you are not a 'numbers guy'.
True, but mere hundreds of millions of killings doesn't make government look all that much better.
Perhaps but my numbers are still far more accurat than your governments unemployment number.
yeah they really do have to rename that.. perhaps, people recently canned or something to make it believable.
All these stories and yet not ONE on how to deal with nose hair.
I don't know about you guys, but I just yank them out.
Pliers or mole grips ?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Scissors on my Swiss Army knife work for me, and my eyes don't even water.
Braiding is not an option.
Speaking of taking advantage of people: I'm amazed at how many MLM scams there are, and the millions of people who get suckered into them. Add on top of that all the scam "universities" like Phoenix and DeVry and it's amazing we're able to function as a country at all. How do we allow shit like that to exist?
How do we allow shit like Havard and Yale to exist?
Excellent point, but how many unemployed Harvard grads are there, and how many Yale graduates go on to sell shampoo for Mary Kay?
How much better that would be than fucking up lives with bullshit law degrees. As far as I know Mary Kay reps never started a war or turned an expensive public education system into a complete fucking joke .
Where the hell is Greece on that chart? (Speaking of tazing nude folks in the nads.)
Greece ain't there that I can find.
Sheesh.
I suspect they would be toward the left side of the chart.
I didn't used to feel that way until I started to watch the "Walking Dead".
People tend to master the art of manipulation as they age. Their wrinkles are lightening strikes{of dishonesty} from "GOD".
I'm either moar intuitive, or we have a decline in core values happening in this country.
Japan is even worse...?
The Old Man and the Starfish
by Irv Furman
There was a young man walking down a deserted beach just before dawn. In the distance he saw a frail old man. As he approached the old man, he saw him picking up stranded starfish and throwing them back into the sea.
The young man gazed in wonder as the old man again and again threw the small starfish from the sand to the water. He asked, "Old man, why do you spend so much energy doing what seems to be a waste of time?"
The old man explained that the stranded starfish would die if left in the morning sun. " But there must be thousands of beached and millions of starfish!" exclaimed the young man. "How can you make any difference?"
The old man looked down at the small starfish in his hand and as he threw it into the safety of the sea, he said, "I made a difference to this one."
Yeah.... and then he Tazed the little p[rick in the nuts to show him a thing or two about getting a decent haircut let alone asking stupid questions about abalone ceveche..
The days of old Knuks. Abalone steaks off Santa Monica pier. ;-)
The Arrow
by Bananamerican's dad
I shot an arrow in the air
where it lands I know not where
Hark, I hear a neighbor swear!
Gee, it must have landed there
Both. A decline in core values plus you're more intuitive than most. Unless, of course, you have a mullet.
I have a mullet.
Knuks, I would love sit in velvet smoking jackets, with a couple of Cubans in a large private library with yourself, and some other well rounded plebeians. ;-D
Sweet. I look like a fucking Duke in my smoking jacket. You and Knukles should be excellently entertaining.
No mullet here, though: I'm generally shaved clean as glass...
I also tend to smoke and pass around fat hydro packed hand rolled El Capitans when I'm grousing with my homies...
Bring on the chalice while we're at it and let's get stupendously bent.
Throxx .... "stupendously bent" .... sounds so, perfect ..... Like one of the Good Doctor's prescriptions
Cyprus #6. IOW the bailins were not surprising in actuality they were expected.
I like the cellphone test:
researchers left cellphones unattended in conspicuous places in cities around the world. they then called the phones to see if anyone would answer and return them to their owners. Ljubljana won with 97% return rate! NY had 80%, Sydney 60%, Hong Kong placed last with 42%.
If they were taking a survey of the truly paranoid they would have filled it out inaccurately believing that "they" may find a way to tag an individual to their responses.
What the hell was that?
The TPP Muppet market bunch.
ZHers missed a ton of cash they could have converted to beloved gold. Now carry on with fear mongering and propagating paranoia.
China's ranking is funny, but Vietnams is hilarious. Just ask anyone who left many decades ago but still goes back to Vietnam to visit family...
Distrust is paranoia. Trust is dementia.
Does this include 'the government is out to take advantage of you'?
is it me or does the colour coding actually rank Rawanda lower than Viet Nam....
Proves again that US citizens on average are slow learners. But they will eventually.
They will learn gulag, yes.
Fuck You Tyler. Two days ago we're commenting on the article about polling of nations ranking themselves for being proud of their respective ShitiStans, and now this bandwidth waste, which ironically finds the most paranoid are also inclusive of citizens most proud of their mud people shitholes. What bullshit from the Bulgarian cross dresser. Just sayin
Got a cute Moroccan that rides the bus three days a week. If only.