Old Testament Naomi functioned as a survival hustler within a broken system

Evidence

“Naomi does sort of pimp Ruth out to Boaz,” I gently point out. “Is that really a nice person to be named after?” Michele pauses. She is eighty-two and sharp as hell. We agree that it’s probably best not to impose our values on biblical stories and return to our coffees in someone else’s sun-drenched kitchen. (If I did want to impose my values, I might say that Old Testament Naomi was a bit of a hustler, doing what it took to get by in a broken system, protecting her people’s future at all costs.) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 300

Categorization

• XREF: Klein reframing a biblical matriarch as an economically desperate strategist parallels how she reframes the far right’s opportunism in later chapters — survival tactics as structural responses.