#Hypernormalisation

Alexia Gaudeulagaudeul
2025-05-23

Interesting article, about how people cope when are crumbling.

I just wonder, haven't all systems been "broken" in some way since forever?

What has ever been able to cope with everyone's reality all the time in all circumstances?

theguardian.com/wellness/ng-in

Pauline von Hellermannpvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-05-23

#ClimateDiary And apologies, I realise ⬆️ I kind side-stepped (ran out of space) - the main point of the article, which is that, whilst we all know things are not normal, we pretend they are; this is #hypernormalisation. Here Harfoush’s IG post on this. What I was trying to say was: maybe we can at least try and break through this, by trying to have real conversations with neighbours and friends; and that could be a start for finding new ways. IDK.

instagram.com/reel/DEhR7_Rge95

2025-05-23

“Donald Trump is not something new,” Curtis tells me, calling him “the final pantomime product” of the US government, where the powerful are abandoning any pretense of common, inclusive ideals and instead using their positions to settle scores, reward loyalty and hollow out institutions for personal or political gains.

theguardian.com/wellness/ng-in

#hypernormalisation #fascism

2025-05-17

A new #BBC #documentary series called #Shifty by a #story teller extraordinaire #Adam #Curtis. Can't wait. Still love his older works like The #Trap and #Hypernormalisation. Some of the best #nonfiction #television ever made.

Abed Abou Shhadeh on #hypernormalisation and Israel:

"Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term 'hypernormalisation' to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.

"In that era, both citizens and officials knew the Soviet system was dysfunctional and no longer reflected reality - yet everyone continued as if nothing was wrong.

"Few could have imagined that the Berlin Wall would collapse, or that the mighty Soviet Union would disintegrate into 15 independent states, with Russia relying on US wheat imports in the 1990s.

"Looking back, it’s easy to identify the broken parts of that system and understand just how surreal and unsustainable - what Yurchak framed as hypernormalised - it truly was."

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Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days | Middle East Eye

middleeasteye.net/opinion/isra

2025-03-24

The Putin playbook is quite well laid out in the documentary #HyperNormalisation. It’s on YouTube.

Step 1 is to destroy the idea of objective truth

Step 2 is to sow confusion

Step 3 is to set allies against each other

These steps need not be sequential. They can be concurrent, but they set the scene for authoritarian leadership to dominate the media narrative with little or no scrutiny of their actual actions and agenda.

Seem familiar?

JavAlpsjavalps
2025-03-15

Hey, so recently I was watching 's latest video on the subject of and wanted to know what do the -ians think about this ?

youtube.com/watch?v=ONE9uWyAKNo

2025-03-07

#HyperNormalisation ist ein Dokumentarfilm des britischen Filmemachers Adam Curtis aus dem Jahr 2016. Ich sehe ihn heute zum ersten Mal udn kann ihn sehr empfehlen, weil er nach Antworten auf die aktuelle Weltlage sucht

filmsforaction.org/watch/hyper

2025-03-02

(Re)watched it yesterday - more relevant than ever

youtube.com/watch?v=AUiqaFIONPQ

Der Kasi HHDerKasi
2025-02-15

Everything is a bit off. Everything is odd. Corruption is accepted. War is accepted. Vice has turned to virtue and all talk of values seems like rhetoric. Those in control seem to have no control. And they know we know. Nothing seems to change. There is no vision or another picture of a different world. We live in fear of change as anything else might be worse than feeling nothing.

youtube.com/watch?v=MIHC4NNScEI

2025-01-22

A good response to #hypernormalisation seems to be #Dada.

color photo of one of Nam June Paik's TV Buddha's
Thomas Ottthomasottio
2025-01-21

"We must accept the fact that building anything fair, just, and healthy requires effort — but it’s all worth it. For what we sow, we shall reap. Let’s plant the seeds for a better harvest this year."

weathered.pub/lessons-in-self-

2025-01-10

Postfaktizität ist nicht einfach "Relativismus" & fehlendes
#factchecking. Postfaktizität bedeutet: reihenweise billig zusammengezimmerte Gegenwirklichkeiten, beliebig austauschbar innerhalb des geteilten Rahmens, dass nichts real ist außer der persönliche Profit.

Und damit wird innerhalb des postfaktischen Rahmens jede Erwartung an faktische Konsistenz dieser opportunistischen Gegenwirklichkeiten nicht nur überflüssig, sondern aktiv aufgehoben. Ihre Proponenten selber scheinen gerade von diesem "epistemischen Chaos" mehr zu profitieren, als wenn sie sich die Mühe machten, ein in sich kohärentes Worldbuilding zu betreiben. Das Netz der Lügen ist nicht einfach ein Gegenbild zum Netz der Wahrheiten, sondern die tiefe Überzeugung, dass es keine Netze gibt: wenn alles mit allem zusammenhängt, leben wir im postfaktischen Zeitalter in einer Schaumwelt.

#postfaktisch

#hypernormalisation

Screenshot eines Videos auf X: https://x.com/justinbwells/status/1876642219593208318But some of the behind-the-scenes details of the pro-Trump expedition are even worse.

Danish media reported Thursday that a series of photos featuring Kirk and Greenlandic residents in MAGA hats was staged. The MAGA cohort reportedly rounded up homeless people from the area—including one person from under a bridge—promising them a meal at the Hotel Hans Egede in exchange for their participation in the pro-Trump photo circuit.

Videos of the trip that circulated on X describe the Greenlandic participants as “the local community in Nuuk,” but several local sources that spoke with DR News described the photographed individuals as “homeless and socially disadvantaged” people who are often outside the supermarket directly across from the hotel where the Trump event was held.

“All they have to do is put on a cap and be in the Trump staff’s videos. They are being bribed, and it is deeply distasteful,” Tom Amtoft, a 28-year resident of Nuuk, told the Danish news outlet.

Amtoft reportedly witnessed the group’s attempts to get locals to wear the MAGA caps for the photos, describing the process as “very aggressive.”
2025-01-09

Nothing says 'global unity' quite like powerful white men forming a club to spread their special brand of chaos.

Listen to this week’s episode An Unpunished Attempted Coup Paves the Way for a Successful One here:
gaslitnation.libsyn.com/an-unp.

nemo™ 🇺🇦nemo@mas.to
2025-01-05
2024-11-06

I've done it again! In 2016, I watched #AdamCurtis #Hypernormalisation the night of the election and woke to a nightmare.
Last night, I watched the final episode of #TheWay and woke to even worse! Must stop doing this!

RoundSparrow 🐦RoundSparrow
2024-04-14

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