Like many others, I was captivated by Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” when I was younger but almost forgot about her until 2010 when she made outlandish claims about Interpol acting as the world’s dating police during the Julian Assange scandal.
How did Wolf go from being a beloved liberal to a regular guest on Bannon’s podcast within a decade? Klein admits that she initially had no intention of writing “Doppelganger,” as she felt there were more pressing issues plaguing the world, but she became increasingly fixated on Wolf’s transformation into a conspiracy theorist. And yet, she found herself desperately trying to protect her personal brand from Wolf’s intrusion. The confusion between the two Naomis became even more frustrating for Klein because her breakout work, “No Logo” in 1999, was a manifesto against branding and commodification. This realization was unnerving for Klein, who felt as though she was being consumed by “Other Naomi,” as she refers to Wolf in her new book, “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World.” When Klein read Wolf’s 2007 book, “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot,” she felt as though she was reading a parody of her own book, “The Shock Doctrine,” with all the facts and evidence meticulously removed.
Klein, who once admired Wolf’s work, was horrified to discover that Wolf had strayed from feminist criticism into broader social polemics. For Klein, it was fellow students who ostracized her when she first criticized Israel in her college newspaper. What was behind the mix-up? Was it their shared first name, their Jewish heritage, or their similar physical appearances, including their partners’ names? Klein began to see eerie parallels between their lives, such as both experiencing rejection from their respective peer groups. However, as time went on, this mix-up became increasingly problematic for Klein, as she found herself constantly associated with Wolf’s extreme views and beliefs. This mix-up initially resulted in mere embarrassment when Klein noticed the confusion back in 2011. People frequently mistake the two Naomis for one another, causing confusion and frustration for Klein. Unfortunately, this newfound conspiracism has proven to be detrimental to Naomi Klein. She proudly states on her Twitter profile that she has been “deplatformed 7 times and still right.” Wolf has made outrageous claims about vaccines being a “software platform” capable of receiving “uploads” and has developed a peculiar obsession with the notion that certain clouds are not real, but rather evidence of “geoengineered skies.” Although she has largely vanished from mainstream media, she has found a welcome spot as a favored guest on Steve Bannon’s podcast, War Room. Naomi Wolf, renowned for her feminist masterpiece “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women” in the 1990s, which exposed the oppressive grooming standards imposed on women, has since become one of America’s most prolific conspiracy theorists. Ooooof.” This rhyme acknowledged Naomi Wolf’s perplexing intellectual journey into conspiracism and the unintended consequences it had on Naomi Klein, the Canadian climate activist and anti-capitalist. But not here.In 2019, a captivating mnemonic began circulating online: “If the Naomi be Klein / you’re doing just fine / If the Naomi be Wolf / Oh, buddy. So far, I've heard the best Trump defense somewhere else - on Skullduggery, on Cuomo's show. Unfortunately, I mainly get some self-assuring incantations, insinuations, and old chap banter. I'm a Never Trumper, so I hoped I'll get confronted with some real arguments that will challenge what I learn from other sources. Vindman's testimony with "Commander" Zinke (what a man of integrity!) or Marie Yovanovitch with Debbie Lesko. They use old tricks from the agitprop playbook, like trying to offset the coming Lt. The elephant is just there in front of their eyes, but they will chit chat about everything else. You can see how much Always Trumpers want to convince themselves and the world around them that nothing happened. The podcast is an exercise in selective blindness. Take episode 35 about ABC's Impeachment Poll "First, I don't believe the number", says one of them. Yet it offers a fascinating opportunity to witness how its authors and guests (still Trump-smitten Bannon, Raheem Kassam, a guy who helped orchestrate the Brexit disinformation campaign) experience cognitive dissonance.
This podcast is merely a smoke-screen agitprop operation.
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