Saros Cycle 121: Eclipse Cycles and Dystopian Paranoia

Escape the Night, 1948

What drives paranoia?

We may think that it’s a fear of the new, an inability to quantify the changes on the horizon, to see where they may lead. Over the last few years, many have invoked visions of dystopia as a dark parallel of our rapidly changing society. Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Terry Gilliam, and Margaret Atwood gave us some of the most enduring visions of a…