Whole societies hold doppelganger potentialities shaped by birth contingencies

Evidence

Yet we all know (or should know) that the choices available to us are hardly random. They radically expand and contract based on which countries we happened to be born into, which bodies, which genders, which races, which families. It’s not only individual lives that hold doppelganger potentialities—so, too, do whole societies. Because we all embody Philip Roth’s that-and-this-ness. Kind and callous. Compassionate and out for our narrowest self-interest. Open to one another and harrowingly closed. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1098

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes A Visit From The Goon Squad’s treatment of time and contingency shaping lives.