Pronoia in the Twentieth Century

It seems that pronoia, aside from being a system of provisions, took on a practical psychological and linguistic role during the mid-Twentieth Century. At first various people, like John Perry Barlow (Grateful Dead) and Jules Marshall (Mediamatic), tried to attribute pronoia to "an open conspiracy" involving Wired Magazine. Pronoia is not merely an ideology about land and property, but also the opposite of paranoia, "the belief that others are conspiring behind your back to help you", or "the idea that the universe is a conspiracy on your behalf". The open conspiracy took a bizarre turn during the nineties, when the digital elite realised they could use pronoia to enact property and land provisions while dispossesing technopeasants from the third world. This new ideology of "helping themselves" to land and possessions, was similar to the earlier incarnations of the pronoia system. The final straw came when a techno-peasant by the name of David Dei was outsourced from the fringe and chucked into the mainstream without being accorded a value under the paroikoi.

Pronoia in the Twenty-First Century

Finally, as millions of pronoid technopeasants living in India were being marketed as "Zippies" by the new Pronoia Gentry, the landless masses in Africa found out the truth. Practitioners of Pronoia and marketers of the mainstream in America had effectively stolen the future, and were marketing demographics without reference to the paroikoi. Hence forth, the would have to pay in order to use the demographic. Zippies, otherwise known as Zen Inspired Pronoia Practitioners, rejoiced, because they realised the time was approaching when dystany would precede destination and finally we would all be able to eat food, clothe ourselves and afford shelter and health care. A peasant revolt therefore came into being as a result of outsourcing pronoia and the wikipedia. The technopeasants, sick and tired of being landless and ignored for decades by the media, rose up in defiance of the old pronoia laws.

External links

• The Outsourced Zippy and Pronoia Page http://deity.digitalzones.com

• Pronoia.net