Pavlo’s Reviews > Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World > Status Update
Pavlo
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“Like my doppelganger projecting all of our surveillance fears on a vaccine app, conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get the feelings right—the feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, the feeling that every human misery is someone else’s profit, the feeling of being exhausted by predation and extraction, the feeling that important truths are being hidden.”
— Jun 17, 2025 11:11AM
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Pavlo
is 81% done
I so want to love this book. It has so much in it that’s so right on. And then it does sort of what it tells others not to do, which is selectively ignore victims by comparing non-comparable, unrelated injustices and injuries
— Jun 25, 2025 12:05PM
Pavlo
is 80% done
“Still, it strikes me that it must be liberating, after living so long in opposition «opposition, then so long in humiliation, to finally be on the side with so few facts and so very many guns.
She doesn’t talk or write about Palestinian rights anymore; they aren’t a top concern for her new friends on the War Room.”
— Jun 25, 2025 11:54AM
She doesn’t talk or write about Palestinian rights anymore; they aren’t a top concern for her new friends on the War Room.”
Pavlo
is 74% done
"Remembering puts the shattered pieces of our selves back together again (re-member-ing); it is a quest for wholeness. At its best, it allows us to be changed and transmuted by grief and loss. But re-traumatization is about freezing us in a shattered state; it’s a regime of ritualistic reenactments designed to keep the losses as fresh and painful as possible.”
— Jun 25, 2025 05:56AM
Pavlo
is 74% done
“Many years later, my friend Cecilie Surasky, then one of the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace, observed of these kinds of educational methods: 'It’s re-traumatization, not remembering. There is a difference.' When she said it, I knew it was true. Remembering puts the shattered pieces of our selves back together again (re-member-ing); it is a quest for wholeness."
— Jun 25, 2025 05:56AM
Pavlo
is 61% done
“What is this strange drive to reveal the nonhidden? Maybe it’s that, in liberal democracies that still pay lip service to social equality (or at least “equity”), there is something profoundly unsatisfying about how open our global elites are about the power they believe they have a right to wield over the rest of us.”
— Jun 17, 2025 11:02AM
Pavlo
is 61% done
“The problem is no longer that we do not know these weighty truths—it is that too many of us do not know how to know them. We all know that our world sits on top of the Shadow Lands. But what do we do with that knowledge? Where does it go? Where is the outrage and shame and sadness diverted?”
— Jun 17, 2025 10:55AM
