Naomi Klein is a feminist writer and academic who has recently written a lot about world capitalism and the environment. She is well thought of and has an excellent reputation. Naomi Woolf was also a feminist writer but during the time of Covid, and afterwards, she started to embrace conspiracy theories, firstly about the virus but more lately about dangers from all vaccines, the threat to health of 5g signals which can be used for mind control, and chemicals being dropped from aeroplanes to control the population. The problem was that people began confusing the two Naomis and the author felt that she was being associated with ideas that she did not agree with in any way. In order to try and sort out what was happening she began to track the other Naomi and Doppelganger is her story of what she found.
This book is actually about the growth of conspiracy thinking during the past decade or so. The author tries to understand what has made the other Naomi move away from mainstream thinking and embrace ideas which are very much on the fringe. She began to realise that it is not that she and the other Naomi now think about things in different ways but that the divergence of their world view is such that it is as if they belong in two different worlds that reflect each other to some degree but are fundamentally different.
This is fascinating stuff as the author outlines what she thinks is happening to some of our society and why. How do we know what is real ? What really matters in our world ? What are the dangers of conspiracy type thinking as it becomes more prevalent and more mainstream ? The author has no real answers to any of this but she does point the way and give the reader, or this reader at least, plenty to think about.
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