And this, I think, is part of the challenge of pulling people back from the Mirror World: What is the alternative that is being offered on this side of the glass? Do we have a plan for a world without sacrificial people? And does that plan feel credible, rooted in action—or does it seem like more blah, blah, blah? Put another way, how do we convince people being seduced by fantasy that it is still possible to exert power to change reality in big and important ways?

QUESTION: What concrete real-world alternatives exist that feel as powerful and seductive as the Mirror World fantasy? This is the core unresolved question posed. SEED: Could frame an essay around 'the credible alternative' — how movements or communities offer people real agency versus empty rhetoric.

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 625