Naomi Klein on her unhinged "doppelganger"

[stylofone]

I feel like the mad world of conspiracy theorists has to collapse in on itself at some stage, but how much destruction will it cause before it finally fails?

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... y-theories

[pipbarber]

I read this piece with my morning coffee. What a strange thing. You could develop quite the list of people who used to be interesting but lost their minds in 'the mirror' world.

Anyway, I like the idea of 'diagonalism.'

Inspired by the term, but taking it beyond Germany, William Callison and Quinn Slobodian, both scholars of European politics, describe these emergent political alliances as “diagonalism”. They explain: “Born in part from transformations in technology and communication, diagonalists tend to contest conventional monikers of left and right (while generally arcing toward far-right beliefs), to express ambivalence if not cynicism toward parliamentary politics, and to blend convictions about holism and even spirituality with a dogged discourse of individual liberties. At the extreme end, diagonal movements share a conviction that all power is conspiracy.”