But there was something else getting in the way: the very idea of treating the pandemic as a portal to something new—something better, greener, and fairer—was being systematically pipiked in the Mirror World by people like my doppelganger. It was getting all mixed up and conflated with the conspiracy talk about how “globalist elites” at the World Economic Forum were trying to harness the recovery for their Great Reset. By early 2021, any discussion about how our societies could and should change in response to the reality of overlapping and intersecting crises was immediately shouted down by the diagonalists as being part and parcel of a conspiracy hatched on a Swiss mountaintop by Bill Gates.

XREF: Connects to the broader 'diagonalism' discourse and vaccine misinformation dynamics seen across many Western democracies post-2020. QUESTION: How might reform discourse recover after being poisoned by conflation with conspiracy theories?

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 486