Doubling in reality signals something important is being denied

Evidence

Doppelgangers, however, are not only forms of torment. For centuries, doubles have been understood as warnings or harbingers. When reality starts doubling, refracting off itself, it often means that something important is being ignored or denied—a part of ourselves and our world we do not want to see—and that further danger awaits if the warning is not heeded. That applies to the individual but also to entire societies that are divided, doubled, polarized, or partitioned into various warring, seemingly unknowable camps. Societies like ours. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 25

Categorization

• DEFINE: The key mechanism of the book’s thesis: a doubled society is an ignored-warning society, extending the doppelganger metaphor from individual psyche to whole polity.
• XREF: connects to: A materialized double signals death while an immaterial double sustains the subject — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 321; Ubiquitous taping destroys the illusion that an unmediated real exists — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 769