Fact-based SUSPICION, not wild paranoia

Suspicion can be a negative, even unhealthy thing when it is not based on some solid, tangible degree of fact, history, or a sense of repeating patterns within a situation.
Once again, a focus on cui bono (who benefits) gives focus, direction and possible purpose to the object of one's suspicions.
Cui bono represents the motive behind a potential crime or possible surreptitious manipulation of a situation.

 
Mindless, baseless suspicions that are never defined or rooted in a set of related circumstances and/or facts, can evolve into paranoia, which can be corrosive. Paranoia can result from intellectual laziness and an unwillingness to research or investigate the problem that a person may be anxious about. This laziness precludes any sense of informed or educated suspicions, that would be justified by at least some layer of known facts.

Our society is rife with intellectually lazy citizens who normally buy into the "Official Explanation" given by media with little resistance.
It is standard behavior for many Americans, who are easily convinced of the "harm" done by Gay Marriage when none has ever been proven to anyone, in any way, or of the threat posed by distant middle-eastern terrorist groups, or country, or a scary disease, or aggressive foreign leader, who the media may be portraying as some existential threat, that week in the news, in any case.   These people may become paranoid to a degree that makes them useless as informed, voting citizens in a representative political system.
Now----Whose cui bono is that?  
Food for thought.

In any case, suspicion, as a tool to interpret a reality we face, 
has been enshrined within our American
political/legal/policing system. 
And if it's good enough for our leaders, bosses and authorities to use, then it is certainly useful for the citizenry as well.

LINKS:


How our Police use suspicion in their work

Suspicion used as basis for drug-testing at work

"Reasonable Suspicion" as a legal basis 

When Suspicion is a Good Thing – FOR BANKS


In summary...

Suspicion without any basis in fact or evidence = Paranoia.

Suspicion based on known facts, patterns or tendencies, as part of a process of actual investigation = A valuable  tool.

 

       I have studied this situation, and I sincerely have to wonder: 

What's really going on here?

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10 Conspiracies that turned out to be TRUE...

Link:
10  ACTUAL  CONSPIRACIES


Link:
10 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To be TRUE

Video Link: 
Noam Chomsky weighs-in...

 Who DOES Control The World?

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