re: #529 Gus

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Another thing that we’re not going to talk about as a society: Mental illness doesn’t manifest in a vaccuum, it’s shaped by family, environment, culture.

How does the prevalence of the paranoid style—“they’re out to get you” and “you can’t trust what’s being said, it’s all biased”—skew manifestations of mental illness in people immersed in it? What happens when you cross-couple imagery of noble vigilante-ism with delusions of persecution?