Jo’s Reviews > Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World > Status Update

"When editors and journalists steer clear of important topics for fear that their audiences can't cope with complex truths, it doesn't throttle conspiracies - it fuels them."

"Wolf marched over th edge & was promptly caught in th arms of millions of ppl who accept every one of her extraordinary theories without question & who appear to adore her. So, while she clearly has lost what I may define as 'it', she has found a great deal more - she has found a new world."

"I could offer a kind of equation for leftists and liberals crossing over to the authoritarian right that goes something like this: Narcissism (Grandiosity) + Social media addiction + Midlife crisis ÷ Public shaming = Right-wing meltdown." So much of this and more applies to prominent TERFs.

Tho there are civil liberties groups tht still stand up against corporate censorship, as well as civil rights groups tht fight4net neutrality, progressives 2day have not, for th most part, made fighting for a democratic & accountable information sphere a cornerstone of their political agenda...th spread of lies & conspiracies online is now so rampant that it threatens public health & quite poss, th surviv of rep demo

"Th Faustian bargain of th digital age-free or cheap dig conveniences in exchge4our data-ws only ever explaned2us after it was already a done deal. & it reprsnts an enormous&radical shift not only in how we live but also, far more impntly, in *what our lives are4*. We r all mine sites now, data mine sites&despite th intimacy&import of wht is being mined, th mng process remains utterly obscure&th mine ops wholly unacc

"This points2what may well prove2b th deepest danger of our era of branded humans. Brands are not built2 contain our multitudes; they demand fixedness, stasis, one singular self per person. Human statues."