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Cam

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I'm a reader and musician in South Florida.

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finished reading Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: Doppelganger (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 5 stars

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who …

Extremely good and honestly important to read at the current moment. I think the concepts in here lay out a lot about the way our media landscape has become bifurcated, the world of alternative facts that contain just enough regular facts to be dangerous.

I often joke that right wing media is just saying normal good and desirable things in a scary tone of voice, and frankly I think that this book identifies something similar but with receipts and research.