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Catch-22 · 1961
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The joke separates being described as paranoid from the question of whether a threat exists. Its twist is that the first description does not, by itself, settle the second. The blunt wording turns a familiar dismissal of suspicion into an unsettling logical reversal.
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