... and a fear, bordering on paranoia, of getting other people in trouble or of being identified as a "person of interest" if our democracy collapsed.
I used to develop and print pictures myself. When I wasn't in a situation where I could do that this undeveloped film would accumulate.
Paranoia is at times a component of my own mental illness. During the worst times of my youth, if I had the money, I'd sometimes drop film off at a random photo developer under an assumed name and prepare myself to make a run for it if something didn't seem right when I picked up the photos. Definitely paranoia!
Or maybe not, if they were photos of nuclear power plants, anti-nuclear rallies, and such.
I've previously described my last adventure at the photo developers here on DU, back when Costco still had a photo counter.
My wife knows I develop my own film and had taken about a dozen pictures of me skinny-dipping. I'd ended up throwing this roll of film in with the rest of the film I was planning to develop. Months later I decided I wasn't going to get around to developing all this film myself so I dropped off the whole lot at Costco. When I went to pick up the photos it seemed like the clerks were looking at me with some sort of amusement. When I looked through the prints, there I was in my birthday suit, frolicking in the water.
Under slightly different circumstances I can easily imagine my undeveloped film ending up unclaimed in a storage locker somewhere.
And my paranoia kicks in too. Maybe "the authorities" want to know who this mystery photographer is and have enlisted the help of CBS to find out.
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