It’s so hard not to screenshot all of Doppleganger by Naomi Klein but this point is so crucial.

alt4me (OCR has been tried; please reply to OP, as many readers will have me blocked)

you dont need to type out the page, just use a free OCR tool (as included in every smartphone, or just search for the web kind) or reply tagging @alt-text.bsky.social the economics of it are such that you should be doing it, not me- readers are fairly likely to have me blocked but not you

WOW.

I’ll be thinking about this all day

AUGH!! BUT WHAT DOES IT MIRROR INSTEAD?!! NEXT PAGE?

"hero narratives easily flip into villain narratives"

Such a great idea for a book

she's nailed the "second wave problem" with liberal feminism succinctly

John Dewey's 'The Public and Its Problems' is very useful to read in the context of our current hyper-individualized/progress narrative in the context of the 'public' and systems. Now I also read this page you presented as a critique of identity politics, as it works on same logics.

This reminds me of a review of a Condoleeza Rice book from years ago. Condi decided that because she was black and succeeded, there were no institutional constraints on blacks. You just weren't working hard enough.