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There\u2019s a whole bunch of movies about doppelgangers (someone\u2019s exact double) coming out in the next month or so. Over at\u00a0The Atlantic<\/em>, I wrote about that, and speculated on why this may be (hint\u2013maybe the Internet has something to do with it):<\/p>\n

That mainlined update on everyone else\u2019s life, I think, taps into the root of our newfound doppelg\u00e4nger obsession and fear. Many of us are afraid that we\u2019re simply not enough as we are\u2014that we\u2019re not cool enough, pretty enough, passionate enough, or interesting enough, so, as Mindy Kaling would have it, everyone is hanging out without us.<\/p>\n

Worse, those whom we wish would love us might prefer us if we were better, cooler, more likable\u2014in other words, another version of ourselves. Our better double.<\/p>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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