It broadens into a deeply insightful inquiry into the ways in which the technology that drives our lives increasingly demands mirror-image doubles, tribal combatants to fuel a divided culture. This book begins as an enjoyably obsessive investigation into that doppelganger relationship, touching on famous precedents: Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock. If the Naomi be Klein You’re doing just fine If the Naomi be Wolf Oh, buddy.
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Naomi Wolf, meanwhile, made a strange journey from beauty myths to a full diet of conspiracy theory, pro-Trump activism and anti-vaccine extremism.Įven so, during the pandemic, the confusion became so pointed that one Twitter user even came up with a handy rhyme, to tell the two women apart: Naomi Klein developed her original anti-corporate message into a critique of the environmental catastrophe of global capitalism that argues for a green New Deal. Her quest is not only the roots of Wolf’s journey to the ‘other side’ but for the blind spots in her own self-awarenessīut while these similarities persisted, over the past 20 years the political journeys of the Naomis could hardly have been more distinct. They both were children of Jewish parents with alternative lifestyles. They both (for the purposes of author photos at least) had big hair and broad smiles. In 1991, Wolf’s The Beauty Myth promoted the idea that eating disorders were by-products of the cosmetics and fashion industries while Naomi Klein’s No Logo, nearly a decade later, had become a global rallying cry against the exploitative working practices of multinationals and their billionaire owners. They had both written generation-defining bestselling polemics. It was true the pair of them had things in common, beyond the name. After that, the misunderstanding started happening more and more, particularly online. It must have been the “other Naomi” – Naomi Wolf. Klein emerged from her cubicle to put the women right: it wasn’t her who had said those things, but she knew straight away who had.
She heard two women discussing something she had said about the Occupy movement, which was then camped outside. The first time it happened, Naomi Klein was in a public lavatory just off Wall Street in Manhattan.
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