Jo’s Reviews > Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World > Status Update
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"We r now reaping th rotted harvest of decades of deliberately sown mistrust-mistrust of th very idea that we r members of communities & societies, mistrust of any expectation that governments can & should do anything positive for us. This impoverished way of seeing th world & one another has gone on for so long, expressed itself in so many dialects tht th very concept of a public good has now become foreign."
— 20 hours, 37 min ago
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Jo
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"As Gilroy-Ware puts it, 'Conspiracy theories are a misfiring of a healthy & justifiable political instinct: suspicion."
— 19 hours, 58 min ago
Jo
is on page 242 of 416
"...conspiracy theorists get the facts wrong but often get th feelings right - th feeling of living in a world with Shadow Lands, th feeling that every human misery is someone else's profit; th feeling of being exhausted by predation & extraction, th feeling that important truths are being hidden. The word for th system driving those feelings starts with c..."
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Jo
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"Bc an economic order tht contains inequalities as extreme as ours is its own kind of depravity, and that level of injustice reproduces more depravity as a matter of course."
— 20 hours, 21 min ago
Jo
is on page 238 of 416
"Power & wealth conspire to2protect themselves. It happens in public, & it happens in private. It happens under th spotlight & it happens in the shadows...we should be v careful not2b so reactive that we end up saying tht sadism & depravity do not happen, tht only a loony conspiracy theorist would believe something like so out-there. CTD
— 20 hours, 21 min ago
Jo
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"In th neoliberal era that began in the 1970s & has not yet ended, every hardship & every difficulty - from poverty to student debt to home eviction to drug addiction - has been pathologised as a personal failing. Every success, meanwhile, is lauded as proof of the relative superiority of the supposedly self-made."
— 20 hours, 58 min ago
Jo
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Jack Bratich: "Liberal investments in individualism result in thinking of power as residing in individuals & groups rather than structures. Without an analysis if capital or class they end up defaulting to th stories th West tells itself about th power of the individual to change th world. But hero narratives easily flip into villain narratives."
— 21 hours, 1 min ago
Jo
is on page 200 of 416
"Th persistent appeal of th vaccine-autism myth, no matter how many times & in how many ways it has been debunked, is tht it gives parents who see difference as tragedy something external to blame."
— Jan 13, 2026 01:00PM
Jo
is on page 198 of 416
"...if your kid is your brand extension, then having a child who challenges social standards of normalcy might mean that your whole personal brand is in crisis."
— Jan 13, 2026 01:41AM
Jo
is on page 197 of 416
"What are children for? Are they their own ppl, and our job, as parents, is to support and protect them as they find their paths? Or are they our appendages, our extensions, our spin-offs, our doubles, to shape and mold and ultimately benefit from?"
— Jan 13, 2026 01:40AM
Jo
is on page 197 of 416
"This, I think, is a corollary of all th shame & pathologizing of kids who are different in our culture - an outside pride taken in kids who seem2check all th boxes, meet th social standards, are perfect little children."
— Jan 13, 2026 01:37AM
