Bisan explains the social and psychological role of the Epstein files release. More accurately and concisely than anyone else I've seen trying to articulate the same ideas.
In short, it's hypernormalisation and learned helplessness.
It makes perfect sense that a Palestinian can see their game this clearly.
#Esptein #Bisan #trauma #hypernormalisation #zionism #FreePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada
"He says everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine any alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society"
#hypernormalisation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNo...
HyperNormalisation - Wikipedia
#Documentaire #HyperNormalisation #AdamCurtis
Living in an Unreal World A Film By Adam Curtis
"Church authority, oligarch patronage, Western legal advocacy, and sympathetic media platforms function as successive filters, allowing Russian state #disinformation to reach Washington stripped of its origins" #hypernormalisation via reputation laundering
www.kyivpost.com/post/68182
Why the Russian Orthodox Churc...
HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis dissects how leaders, financiers and tech utopians built a comforting fake reality that masks chaos beneath the surface 🌐📺 A must-watch for anyone tracking modern power and media narratives:
https://archive.org/details/hyper-normalisation-2016-subs-by-adam-curtis-a-different-experience-of-realit
#HyperNormalisation #AdamCurtis
#Documentary
Because of the #HyperNormalisation effect, the most appealing simulation is probably cartoonish
#Hell is here on earth:
WHO sounds alarm as mental health conditions soar past one billion worldwide
#Hypernormalisation #ReligiousFascism #Neoliberalism
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165759
#HyperNormalisation is not an easy #film to watch but I still recommend it IF you have that "nothing ever changes, why??" feeling. The system is fucking broken, indeed.
It paints a very compelling picture and has a very convincing message yet at the same time manages to be all over the place. Wild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt86SSNQKPw
Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
/via @hotdogsladies
Siding into fascism - The “international rules-based order"
"A US professor who studies fascism says Australia’s history of the White Australia policy, Indigenous displacement and treatment of asylum seekers makes it vulnerable to fascism."
“Fascism begins with immigrants and national minorities, and it moves quickly to political opponents.”
"All the remaining democratic countries are going to face surging anti-democratic, ultranationalist movements...We shouldn’t be surprised if, very soon, there are no more democracies, or very few."
"Undoing fascism is very, very hard."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/usa-american-fascism-expert-warning-australia-you-guys-are-probably-next
#democracy #Australia #FarRight #EthnoNationalism #HyperNormalisation #VibeShift #culture
"A blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development."
The new norm ?
"Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship.
A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing
"Gaza is becoming ‘graveyard of international humanitarian law’ "
"We have made the Geneva convention[s] almost irrelevant. What is happening and being accepted today in Gaza is not something that can be isolated; it will become the new norm for all future conflicts."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/03/gaza-graveyard-international-humanitarian-law-unrwa-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news
#EconomicAcceleration #EthnicCleansing #MassDeportation #ForcedDisplacement #ImperialBoomerang #expansionism #destruction #InternationalLaw #law #GenevaConventions #civilians #BareLifeAgamben #StatesOfException #HyperNormalisation #everywhere
Are 'ordinary mums and dads' making 'bad apples' ?
Caught up in tight-knit webs of hate
“There was a range of grievances on display about perceived immigration rates on Sunday, but it was clear for many that the return to an imagined white Australia was a central theme...It’s not that white supremacy, which was present clearly yesterday, is something that the neo-Nazis in some evil, secretive fashion introduced into the political mainstream. It is something that has always been present in parts of the mainstream." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/02/how-neo-nazis-used-the-shield-of-ordinary-mums-and-dads-at-australia-anti-immigration-rallies-to-sell-white-supremacy-ntwnfb
"The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it has been enabled by the mainstream." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/01/understanding-anti-immigration-march-protest-australian-mainstream-society-ntwnfb
#HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #mainstream #ImaginedCommunity #decline #ressentiment #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #EnablingSystems #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #RottenAppleTheory
"Indigenous leaders have called for Sunday's attack on Aboriginal protest site Camp Sovereignty to be investigated as a hate crime."
"Counterterrorism police will help investigate the attack, according to the Victorian government. About 40 men dressed in black, some armed with flagpoles and sticks and led by known Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell, violently attacked Camp Sovereignty following Sunday's anti-immigration March for Australia rally. "
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-02/iat-camp-sovereignty-follow/105722830
#HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #BatWieldingGangs #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #EthnoNationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement #ressentiment
Bat-wielding gangs and a sense of decline
"Camp Sovereignty organisers said four people were injured in the incident, which they said was unprovoked. The Victorian government has condemned an attack on a First Nations protest camp in Melbourne by far-right demonstrators following an anti-immigration rally.They came armed with poles to attack a group of predominantly women at a peace camp,"
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-01/camp-sovereignty-clash-melbourne-rally/105719018
"A group of men, including some members of neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network, attacked the standing First Nations protest site, Camp Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain on Sunday evening, Four people required medical attention and two were taken to hospital with severe head injuries, one with a deep gash to their head, the camp said...They alleged the men yelled slogans such as “white power” and “white man’s land”, as well as sexist and racist slurs."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/01/neo-nazis-attack-camp-sovereignty-indigenous-site-melbourne-anti-immigration-protest-police-injured-sydney-ntwnfb
"Schlagertruppen" (bat-wielding gangs)
or "fighting troops". Examples include right-wing Freikorps and later, Sturmabteilung (SA), which engaged in political violence and were instrumental in the rise of Nazism.
#HateCrime #violence #FarRight #HyperNormalisation #Nazism #Weimar #IndigenousPeoples #dehumanisation #Australia #decline #WhiteSupremacy #Ethnonationalism #SettlerSociety #grievances #WhiteEntitlement
How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map
ProPublica article
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners
An interesting read. The threat of #inequality seems plausible to me. It also make sense to me that we cannot think beyond the dominating truisms and thought-terminating clichés. #democracy #economy #capitalism #hypernormalisation
CDLT
Si ça fait pas mal, ça peut pas être bien ? Pourquoi on continue de lier souffrance et valeur du travail
https://mcinformactions.net/si-ca-fait-pas-mal-ca-peut-pas-etre-bien-pourquoi-on-continue-de-lier
#hypernormalisation #souffranceauTravail #Travail
Climate Extremes as the Norm
"In the absence of effective global climate mitigation actions, we may thus witness a qualitative regime shift from a world dominated by individual climate-related hazards and impacts to one where compound occurrences become the norm."
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Messori, G., Muheki, D., Batibeniz, F., Bevacqua, E., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., & Thiery, W. (2025). Global mapping of concurrent hazards and impacts associated with climate extremes under climate change. Earth's Future, 13, e2025EF006325. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006325
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF006325
#Fossilfuels #impacts #CompoundHazards #ClimateExtremes #RegimeShift #bushfires #ExtremeHeat #floods #droughts #CropFailures #climate #hypernormalisation
Hydroclimatic whiplash events and hypernormalisation
The Nasa report: “...is a stark reminder that a hotter planet means more severe floods and droughts. This has long been predicted, but is now being seen in reality."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/nasa-data-reveals-dramatic-rise-in-intensity-of-weather-events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
#FossilFuels #HydroclimaticWhiplash #floods #drought #ExtremeHeat #climate #MassDelusion #reality #RealityDenial #hypernormalisation
