Hypernormalisation: “They had discovered that it was impossible to control and predict everything... But rather than reveal this, the technocrats began to pretend that everything was still going according to plan, and what emerged instead was a fake version of the society…”

...a society where everyone knew what their leaders said was not real because they could see with their own eyes that the economy was falling apart, but everybody had to play along and pretend that it was real because no one could imagine any alternative. You were so much a part of the system, that it was impossible to see beyond it. The fakeness was hypernormal.” —Adam Curtis, “HyperNormalisation”

Adam Curtis' "HyperNormalisation" should be watched in full annually. 1 time every year.

So many societies are just large human experiments. We are groups of lab rats.

Adam Curtis Century of Self broke my brain, When I found out about Edward Bernays Torches of Freedom.

Adam Curtis did some great revealing documentaries for the BBC back in the day. Always scratched my head and wondered why they allowed these reveals when everything else on the BBC was slop Academic Agent still does Curtis analysis on his channel

Russian playbook for social engineering.

Canada in a nutshell.

@connerben This is MA real time.

We have added several more Fake Society layers since 2016

If only people can take the blinders off to see what's real.

So timely, thanks

The word hypernormalisation was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach in the United States. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006)

Huh wow Soviet Union sounds like America, right now.

@MrEwanMorrison

adam curtis is ok but he is a wizened postliberal cynic and acts like we cant do anything which castrates the filmz

The only way this ends is when people start doing things you can't post about online.

This is why a lot of posters say Bolshevism has moved it's front to America. If seems this documentary may have made sense when it aired but would have been boring after do to not being understood but now it's frightening because we're there, we've noticed.

Adam Curtis documentaries are 🔥

Everything is normal.

That is, of course, the danger in EVERY conspiracy theory. Believing everything is a lie is corrosive.

'Normalisation' refers to the process adopted in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet Union crushed the Czech's experiment in socialist democracy. When Soviet Union collapsed, the West accelerated the capitalist/monetarist/Thatcherite model until now it too is in hypernormalisation.

The dollar has decreased in value continously since 1985 coincidentally after the crack era. We are competing with crackheads

Big fans of Adam Curtis, are ye? I dunno, his ideas are interesting, if sorta monotonous and unoriginal, films are even more of the same, imo. Hypernormalization.

They hit 2012 before us, apparently.

@philomathyjen Technocrats Inc View on the Soviet Union 👌

Gaslight 101

hypernormalisation got us all faking normal heavy

>mfw when it was once again just a fantasy

This society we are in is becoming more and more performative, easier and easier to manage with AI, but its still fake. Torture victims eventually admit they are wrong and believe it sincerely even though innocent of the accusations

@PeterMcCormack when are you going to interview Adam Curtis? Please tell me who've watched 'Bitter Lake' and 'hypernormalisation' ?

Such a good film, I put it in the same league as The Minds of Men

@tweem 40k views

Is this real?

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