Ok so imagine you live in a society where every one is ignorant of the lives of others. Everyone elses own lives are thriving, or at least that's what they make you think is happening. With all this success around you you are bound to question your own achievements in life, as well as your trust in the things people tell you, right? The world around you induces paranoia making you wonder and think and drives you mad thinking that you must do more that you must have more, that everyone is out to get you that you must only ever rely on yourself, doesn't it?
The episode "Have you now or ever been..." of Angel experiments with this concept of Paranoia and delves even deeper into the easily formed and even more easily broken bonds of trust between humans.
Even though Whedon didn't write this episode it was really well done and it conveys its themes in a very smart way. To make the flashback a large portion of the episode allowed the audience to get the feel for a society that is experiencing a time of crisis where everyone has something "big" to hide which in turn allows everyone to make themselves seem alot more successful than they are, which makes the others around them even more concious of their own lives, which creates self doubt, resulting in the paranoia that their life will fall to shambles beause their lives are just "too good to be true."
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