Hyper-Normalization
Hyper-Normalization
A measured response to a common feeling in the dystopian zeitgeist
PS: testing if the video is playable from a link
In 2015 we were poised for revolution. Two "radical" voices screaming for change. On the left we had Bernie Sanders and on the right Donald Trump. Trump & company strong armed and essentially did a coup on the Republican party. The left successfully squashed the progressive movement because they didn't want to threaten their comforts. We got Trump.
That fear of change from "the left" has led us down a slippery slope of nationalism, authoritarianism, oligarchy, and an all around cyberpunk hellscape.
Yeah 2015 was a revolutionary year, but the good guys were crushed and the bad guys won. ☹️
Video is playable but no audio
sorry for the muted video. it seems downloading the video from the redlib frontend yields no audio
This is due to the way Reddit handles video. The video and the audio are two separate files that are combined by Reddit embedded media player. There are tools to combine them however I usually just go to the source to get the original instead or trying to pull it from Reddit.
Accurate explanation of how things are :(
This is the entire Adam Curtis documentary on hypernormalization:
Fair warning, this is fairly painful to watch. Well worth watching though.
This was just in my queue the other day if you're after more on the topic.
This is amazing! I never would’ve stumbled across it on my own. THANK YOU!
Yeah that was quite eye opening thanks
“There it is again… that funny feeling”
The Victor Pelevin novel Homo Zapiens touches on this a little as well.