In his work The Double: Journey into the mirror worldNaomi Klein analyzes the failings of the American Republican Party towards an electorate that brought Trump to power. To do this, she plunges into the heart of the duality that opposes the two illustrious parties by engaging in introspection. As an anti-capitalist essayist, the author of No Logo symbolically embodies the Democratic Party. Opposite, another public figure represents Republican America: that of anti-vax conspiracy theories and Steve Bannon podcasts, to which a significant proportion of Americans adhere. Also an essayist but with diametrically opposed ideas, Naomi Wolf plays the alter ego of Naomi Klein.
In the digital world, the two Naomis are often confused, so much so that Naomi Klein is sometimes taken to task for Naomi Wolf’s opinions. Opinions that people described as “woke” no longer try to understand and even refuse to hear. This phenomenon is amplified by social media algorithms, which tend to comfort their users in their own thinking by creating airtight filter bubbles for divergent opinions. Faced with this observation, the author attempts to understand the thinking of what she calls her “double” to understand the shortcomings of the American left. By refusing to confront the contradiction, has the American left stopped listening to a society traumatized by the health crisis? And, at a time when we are observing the rise of authoritarianism in Italy, Germany and even Argentina, is this failure shared by leftists around the world?
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