Could be worse... when I first heard the title my mind immediately thought of Paranoia the RPG rather than where the book was going :-)

I'm not sure that we aren't just in a 'pause' period between terrifying cycles.... there are too many of the forces of unreasonableness of a violent nature trying to stir things up in the background for their own fear, paranoia and profit.

The drum beats of the Tea Party folk is starting to sound more racist, more proto-fascist and more prone to violence as time goes on.