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HyperNormalisation, a documentary by Adam Curtis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
If you can muster through the 2 hours and 40 minutes of explanation I think it makes a number of extremely important points that helps frame the stranger than fiction world we now find ourselves in. Every day brings a new chapter to the Trump soap opera in which we have to question who is telling the truth here and what is really going on? And that is what this film is all about, nobody truly knows anymore.
I watched this a few days after Trump was elected, it had a very surreal quality to it that I hadn't experienced since the 2008 financial crash when the rantings of a few "nutters" finally came to life. It was happening, again. While technology, organization, and access to resources enrich the world overall; violence and large scale warfare continue to fade into the past; you can't help but still feel like in some ways, things are getting much, much worse. I think the next four years will be a litmus test for whether this new zeitgeist is simply a fad, or the new normal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
If you can muster through the 2 hours and 40 minutes of explanation I think it makes a number of extremely important points that helps frame the stranger than fiction world we now find ourselves in. Every day brings a new chapter to the Trump soap opera in which we have to question who is telling the truth here and what is really going on? And that is what this film is all about, nobody truly knows anymore.
I watched this a few days after Trump was elected, it had a very surreal quality to it that I hadn't experienced since the 2008 financial crash when the rantings of a few "nutters" finally came to life. It was happening, again. While technology, organization, and access to resources enrich the world overall; violence and large scale warfare continue to fade into the past; you can't help but still feel like in some ways, things are getting much, much worse. I think the next four years will be a litmus test for whether this new zeitgeist is simply a fad, or the new normal.
