Doppelganger: Getting the vibes right, but the facts wrong

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Doppelgänger was prompted by Naomi Klein's repeated experience of being mistaken for Naomi Wolf. Hardly warrants an entire book, but Klein uses this experience as a springboard to examine the doubling that occurs in politics and society, and how the right wing conspiracy machine gets the vibes right even as it gets the facts wrong.
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Комментарии : 42

@Robert.Sheard 8 месяцев назад

I am planning to read this one soon (and Wellness). Glad your title sums up her critique and not her performance in this book.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

LOL - there is a bit of doubling on the title I admit, but yes Klein gets the vibes AND facts right IMO

@luckyhenry9832 2 месяца назад

Doppleganger was an interesting mix of personal disclosure and macro theorising about the distraction, divisiveness, and distortion characterizing our contemporary Western post-pandemic society. Love your summary of this book. 😘

@sochiazuh 8 месяцев назад

Love this. Calm as an act of resistance. ❤

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

100% It's a theme that comes up in Jenny Odell's How to Do Nothing as well

@sochiazuh 8 месяцев назад

@@ThePoptimist And… you upped your thumbnail game. Well done. 👍🏽

@RSelcov 8 месяцев назад

Doppleganger was one of my top reads last year. I just finished The Rabbit Hutch and greatly enjoyed it.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Rabbit Hutch! I'd forgotten about that one already but only hearing great things

@madworld1962 8 месяцев назад

I've been reading Salman Rushdie lately. Started with Quichotte then, with great trepidation, got around to The Satanic Verses and loved it. Afterwards, I read where Rushdie said it's a novel about migration and metamorphosis, and I really get it. I'm now reading his memoir from 2012, Joseph Anton: a Memoir. His new book, Knife, will be a definite read. Love your reviews!

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Thank you! Knife is going to be huge and that cover is an absolute stunner!

@stayathomereader 8 месяцев назад

I plan on grabbing this book from the library this week. At first I thought this video title was review of the book so I was about to scrap those plans! But now understanding more I am very intrigued! I need to do a lot of mental preparation for this election year 😔

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

A LOT of mental preparation - all the "lessons" learned by the media on how to cover Trump are out the window with the realization that it sells clicks on both sides.

@alldbooks9165 7 месяцев назад

Having a great reading year so far … Tom Lake, Fanny Herself, Comfort of Crows, Our Migrant Souls, Master Slave Husband Wife, Heaven and Earth Grocery Store … #winning

@ThePoptimist 7 месяцев назад

Just started (and loving so far) Tom Lake! It has been some great reading so far tho!

@LauraFreyReadinginBed 8 месяцев назад

Oh suggestions... I read a Kent Haruf for the first time in many years and it was great (Our Souls at Night) and I'm really enjoying Cold Mountain right now!

@bookishsabrina 8 месяцев назад

I loved Doppleganger, my first read of 2024! And I loved your review as well.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Such a great (and even more timely) read!

@onourpath 8 месяцев назад

I read Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld last month. I think you liked The Enchanted long ago? SG comes out March 26ish. I loved it! 💚

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

I loved Enchanted! Will have to keep an eye out for that in the spring - thanks for the heads up!

@myreadinglife8816 8 месяцев назад

I am very interested in reading Doppleganger. Hope it makes it to the BTP long list!

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

gotta be a contender for sure!

@jacquelinemcmenamin8204 8 месяцев назад

Best books read ( with my ears) so far this month North Woods by Daniel Mason How To Build A Boat by Elaine Feeney Tom Lake by Ann Patchett Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong Currently reading ( with my ears) Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan Gungle by Steven Rowley ☘️👋🍀📕📚📖🇮🇪☕️

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for this! Tom Lake and North Woods are high on my list

@davidnovakreadspoetry 8 месяцев назад

I had picked up _No Is Not Enough_ by Klein, but am unhauling it unread because it’s all about Trump, the last person I’m curious about. So I wonder if she isn’t a bit too topical? Is _Doppleganger_ a good place to start with Klein? (I used to like Wolf a long time ago.)

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

I think Doppelganger is the perfect place to start with Klein and it seems to get only more topical as time goes by.

@xenopoly 8 месяцев назад

I bought a copy of Doppelganger, it’s still TBR for me though. I heard about it on The Blindboy Podcast, where Klein was on for a chat. I will check out Rabbit Hole, so thanks for sharing. I’m currently reading NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman, which I’ve a feeling might end up having some overlaps with Doppleganger. And I’m really enjoying it.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Oooh that's a chonker that I hadn't heard of before, thanks for the tip!

@lindysmagpiereads 8 месяцев назад

Always a pleasure to watch another of your approachable bookish champion videos. 😉 I’m reading Deluge by Stephen Markley. Is it already on your TBR?

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Holy crap it is now! That sounds fantastic and adding it to the list immediately.

@readandre-read 8 месяцев назад

Election year. Sigh. It's already getting weird and ugly. I admit to a self-protective need to wall off some of the crazier stuff but yet it's also fascinating to hear the workings of people's mind and the rhetoric. I have tried to figure out how some people in my own extended family have fallen down right wing rabbit holes and conspiracy theories. My upcoming reads include The Road to Dalton, Moon of the Turning Leaves, a reread of How High We Go in the Dark and The Good Lord Bird, among others.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Otherwise reasonable folks totally bought in and obviously arguing doesn't make a lick of difference - I have been asking some what they've been doing at the local level to enact change when it gets into the really wild stuff if only to get to a place where we can both acknowledge it is just talking about the stuff - I mean sure, let's talk about crisis actors in the latest shooting in service to a larger agenda - what are you doing at the local level to fight this?

@readandre-read 8 месяцев назад

@@ThePoptimist Wait, you mean being angry all the time and writing canned repetitive responses on Facebook isn't taking action? 😄 In seriousness, I'm also worried about the more energetic folks who are trying to upend school boards and library directors.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Right?! As soon as we're talking school board or regional councilor I'm taking notice, until then we're arguing about whether Hendrix or Clapton is the better guitar player when neither of us play.

@curioushmm9027 8 месяцев назад

this was a terrific video..i hope to read doppleganger eventually but meanwhile i'm glad for these insights..i'm reading and do recommend the 100 years' war on palestine by rashid khalidi...and an immense world by ed yong.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

Thanks! Ed's been on my list for a while now, Yong in the Atlantic has been must read content throughout the pandemic.

@curioushmm9027 8 месяцев назад

@@ThePoptimist 😀

@LauraFreyReadinginBed 8 месяцев назад

I enjoyed reading this, and was my first Klein (I was a devotee of Wolf's The Beauty Myth!) But it kind of missed the mark for me. I found the Doppelganger metaphor stretched too thin, and the capitalized concepts like Mirror World kinda rubbed me the wrong way too. I definitely didn't come away with a lot of empathy for former liberals who have right wing meltdowns either. It did make me want to read Klein's older stuff though.

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

I'm so removed from that end of the rabbit hole so I conveniently forget where folks end up once they're "cancelled" and the massive ecosystem there to sustain them (Gina Carano funded by Elon Musk to sue Disney sounds like a MadLib) And agree with trying to make Mirror World happen, just grateful she didn't try and capitalize pipikism too

@muiawat 8 месяцев назад

Definitely need to read this book ! Loved no logo and shock doctrine really politicized me

@ThePoptimist 8 месяцев назад

I really need to pick up Shock Doctrine, loved No Logo as well and this of course was fantastic.

@shadowbeastie 6 месяцев назад

1:21 i'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you've never actually read anything about anything Naiomi Wolf has referenced in her books. Good job, brainiac. "i don't know anything about clouds" and you don't ever intend to, apparently...... See this is what's wrong with the "left" they criticize books they've NEVER EVEN READ.