The Mirror World’s appeal rests on real grievances it opportunistically exploits

Evidence

All of this and more have pushed millions of people to try to heal, cure, and control themselves through an ever-expanding array of self-help directives and wellness concoctions, plenty of which have real benefits. This is the trouble with the Mirror World: there is always some truth mixed in with the lies; always some devastating collective failure it has identified and is opportunistically exploiting. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 582

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharp compression of the Mirror World thesis: the mechanism is truth mixed with lies, collective failure identified and exploited.
• XREF: The core diagonalism/Mirror World claim appears almost verbatim in the reader’s reading-goal formulation — this is the crystallized version central to Klein’s whole argument.