A review by siebensommer
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

challenging informative slow-paced

4.25

at times it feels like it's losing itself in so many different themes (all very important and well-researched) and then you get to the end and all comes together.. oof

in fact it makes a certain kind of sick sense that our era of peak personal branding has coincided so precisely with an unprecedented crisis point for our shared home. the vast complex planetary crisis requires coordinated collective effort on an international scale. that may be theoretically possible, but it sure is daunting. far easier to master ourselves - the brand called you.

we did [change the discourse] but we appear to have done it at the precise moment when words and ideas underwent a radical currency devaluation

what is the alternative that is being offered on this side of the glass? do we have a plan for a world without sacrificial people? and does that plan feel credible, rooted in action?

we are not, and never were, selfmade. we are made and unmade by one another

hitler [...] was not the civilised democratic west's evil other, but its shadow, its doppelganger.
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