Mass political disorientation is experienced by ordinary people as losing intimates down rabbit holes

Evidence

I am hardly the only one to grapple with a sense that reality is somehow warping. Almost everyone I talk to tells me about people they have lost “down the rabbit hole”—parents, siblings, best friends, as well as formerly trusted intellectuals and commentators. People, once familiar, who have become unrecognizable. Altered. It began to feel as if the forces that have destabilized my world are part of an expansive web of forces that are destabilizing our larger world—and that understanding these forces could hold a key to getting to firmer ground. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 16

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Klein’s Shock Doctrine framework and to the broader post-2016 literature on epistemic fractures (e.g., ‘The Death of Truth,’ post-truth critiques).
• DEEPTHINKING: Not top-tier — mostly scene-setting. The ‘forces destabilizing my world are part of larger forces’ formulation is the seed of her mirror-world thesis, but it isn’t yet analytically dense.