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medium-paced
I always love a great book about hoaxes, cults and pseudoscience. This one puts race front and center in a way the white authors I've read fail to do. The false memoir is a particularly interesting bit and doubles are mentioned. If you've read Naomi Klein's Doppelganger, that may resonate. While it doesn't focus on Trump, that is the inescapable time and context in which the book was written. Through a history of spirit photography, hoaxes, plagiarism, and fake memoirs we're asked to think of truth as a muscle that has atrophied. We can reclaim it if we choose. I hope we collectively choose that soon.
I'll note the last part of the quote. It feels like it's talking about lots of bad things - oppressive authoritarian religions, Zionism, American militarism/imperialism.
"Hoaxers wound the world and then say, see how the world is wounded? the whole world is fake and then say they are all that's real. Such behavior they share with cult leaders, whether Jim Jones and his People's Temple or the millennial Heaven's Gate followers. It's no accident that Morgan's Real People are apocalyptic cultists: whenever such a group insists its reality is the only one, that reality inevitably becomes more and more extreme, ending the only way it can, in extinction. The result is not only deadly but deadening."
I'll note the last part of the quote. It feels like it's talking about lots of bad things - oppressive authoritarian religions, Zionism, American militarism/imperialism.
"Hoaxers wound the world and then say, see how the world is wounded? the whole world is fake and then say they are all that's real. Such behavior they share with cult leaders, whether Jim Jones and his People's Temple or the millennial Heaven's Gate followers. It's no accident that Morgan's Real People are apocalyptic cultists: whenever such a group insists its reality is the only one, that reality inevitably becomes more and more extreme, ending the only way it can, in extinction. The result is not only deadly but deadening."