The concept of the doppelganger has provided me with a fresh perspective on the mix of malicious parody and projection that currently dominates our public life. Soon, it is anticipated that the House will impeach President Biden on the pretext of his alleged involvement in corruption in Ukraine. This mirrors the conspiracy theory that Trump attempted to revive when he faced impeachment for corruption in Ukraine. The impending doppelganger impeachment is a complex topic that inevitably leads us down countless rabbit holes, which is undoubtedly the intention behind it.
Ezra Klein articulates, “How reassuring it would be if Wolf turned out to be a mere façade that we could expose, rather than a symptom of the widespread disintegration of meaning that afflicts virtually everything.” This disintegration, though it predates the Covid era, has been exacerbated by the pandemic, as people are compelled to live their lives online, communicating on platforms seemingly designed to reward anger and paranoia algorithmically.
Naomi Wolf’s story serves as a lesson. Her influential book, “The Beauty Myth,” published in 1990, exposed the detrimental effects that unrealistic beauty standards impose on women. However, in retrospect, we can discern the early signs of her intellectual decline within that very work. The book contained significant statistical errors and a conspiratorial subtext that portrayed patriarchy’s influence as an intentional plot. Over the years, her work grew increasingly careless and absurd, ultimately leading to the collapse of her reputation in 2019 with the release of “Outrages.”
Wolf endured the humiliation of being confronted, live on air, with evidence that the central premise of her book – the execution of numerous men in Victorian England for same-sex relationships – was based on a misinterpretation of historical records. Consequently, her U.S. publisher canceled the publication of “Outrages” in October of that year.
Klein suggests that the defining moment when Wolf’s transition towards right-wing pseudopopulism was solidified was when she faced public scrutiny on the BBC and was subsequently condemned, ridiculed, and effectively discredited. Klein, who witnessed much of the backlash erroneously directed at her, empathetically recounts how this professional collapse, occurring shortly after the death of Wolf’s father, left her in an already fragile state as she entered the tumultuous period of the pandemic.
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