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“The deeper I went, the more I noticed this phenomenon all around me: individuals not guided by legible principles or beliefs, but acting as members of groups playing yin to the other’s yang—well versus weak; awake versus sheep; righteous versus depraved. Binaries where thinking once lived.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“The known world is crumbling. That’s okay. It was an edifice stitched together with denial and disavowal, with unseeing and unknowing, with mirrors and shadows. It needed to crash. Now, in the rubble, we can make something more reliable, more worthy of our trust, more able to survive the coming shocks.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“Being alive in a knife-edge moment like this, being forced to be complicit in it, while our so-called leaders fail so miserably to act, unavoidably generates all kinds of morbid symptoms. Inevitably, people reach for narratives to make sense of this reality.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“We were not, and never were, self-made. We are made, and unmade, by one another.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
“In nations whose economies were built on the back of enslaved Black people’s labor, and whose very existences are owed to the stealing of lands from Indigenous peoples through campaigns of horrific violence, torture, famine, and forced relocation, the past is our collective, unshakable, omnipresent shadow.”
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
― Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World
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