Playboy After Hours
March, 1967
Other journals have commented on today's pervasive paranoia, the widespread suspiciousness that conspiracies--local, national and international--are all about us, and that no action, however simple-seeming or straightforward in its announced or apparent intent, may be taken at face value. Partly a reflection of general anxiety, partly the cynicism of the frightened and ignorant, who explain the world to themselves in terms of dark plots, this paranoid posture leads to some quite ingenious mythma...