It could be a generalisation at my end, but from what I have seen and heard a lot of people with schizophrenia have a similar paranoia and my question is, is why is it specifically about someone (mostly government) tracking their movements? Why isn’t it about something else?
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There’s a lot of evidence that schizophrenic paranoia and hallucinations are [influenced by your culture](https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/07/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614). In cultures that believe in spiritual connections to, say, their ancestors, it seems like the voices and hallucinations tend to be friendly and helpful rather than “dangerous”.
Compare that to, say, Western cultures with a lot of Christian influences, and you get a lot of schizophrenia that manifests as “demons” or ghosts or other evil things that are out to get you. Even without Christianity, we have a lot of distrust in our government. Although the most famous example is probably the USA, a lot of countries in the west were founded on winning independence from a tyrannical empire. Those stories pervade even our fiction where we have stories like [Secret Invasion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Invasion_(miniseries)), featuring shape-shifting aliens taking over the government. Given how prevalent these stories are, it shouldn’t be surprising that someone with a mental disorder that makes them delusional would attach to that theme.
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