Let’s get into it!!!!

Digital shadows, conspiracy influencers, vaccines, apartheid, the Holocaust, the term self-hating Jew, Palestine, calling yourself out, having skin in the game, and what the left got wrong (and the liberals who think they are left). Watch this — you might agree and disagree with some of this, but you will be engaged.

I think it’s important to have conversations like this — that puts us in spaces where we can listen to other points of view and actually hear them. Naomi Klein has been supporting and challenging people from day one. She is many things, including an author and activist. Her ninth book is another bestseller. It’s called ‘Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World’.

Through the lens of the idea of a doppelganger and an online self (which you might have too), she explores the Mirror World—"our destabilized present rife with doubles and confusion, where far-right movements playact solidarity with the working class, AI-generated content blurs the line between genuine and spurious, New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers further scramble our familiar political allegiances, and so many of us project our own carefully curated digital doubles out into the social media sphere."

So it will get spicy, and maybe we can change. But Naomi reminds us — it’s not about changing “one uncle at a time."

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Chapters

01:15 — Interview Begins
01:40 — British Columbia “Snowmageddon”
02:13 — Capturing the “Mirror World” in Doppelganger
06:17 — Going Down Steven Bannon Rabbit Holes
08:30 —Being Mistaken for Naomi Wolf
12:05 — Capitalism and Class War
16:28 — Learning how to “un-self”
21:27 —What conspiracy culture gets right
30:10 — The monetization and commodification of conspiracy
34:54 — Collectively agreeing on facts and truth
36:02 — Listening to Steve Bannon's "War Room"
39:30 — Why the world is broken
42:27 — Democracy in decline
46:04 — The power of right-wing populism
48:09 — Isreal and Palestine, Doppelganger Politics
53:52 — Being called a self-hating Jew
57:17 — South Africa's genocide case against Israel
1:01:40 — “Horrific” Media Coverage of Palestine
1:04:05 — Navigating this Generational Shift
1:08:40 — What’s “off-limits” when writing about her child
1:10:28 — Lightning Round
1:12:47 — Gen X