Paranoia, in some respects, I think,
is a modern-day development of an ancient, archaic sense that animals still
have-quarry-type animals-that they're being watched .... I say paranoia
is an atavistic sense. It's a lingering sense, that we had long ago, when
we were - our ancestors were - very vulnerable to predators, and this sense
tells them they're being watched. And they're being watched probably by
something that's going to get them ....
And often my characters have this feeling.
But what really I've done is, I have atavised
their society. That although it's set in the future, in many ways they're
living-there is a retrogressive quality in their lives, you know? They're
living like our ancestors did. I mean, the hardware is in the future, the
scenery's in the future, but the situations are really from the past.
