@dirtwizard666 How can ANYONE be hinged?
#hypernormalization
Hypernormalization:
“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has,”
#hypernormalization #hierundjetzt #realitaet #ideologiestattfakten #statusquo
I was thinking #weltschmerz but #hypernormalization works too
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The #dissonance is real https://buff.ly/ipNDnwN
#vocabulary #mentalhealth #systemiccollapse #compartmentalize #shutdown #copingstrategies #resistance
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#Politics #Crumbling #Autocracy #Collapse #Hypernormalization
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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real | Well actually | The Guardian
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Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening.
And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.
"Why hypernormalization is relevant in the US
The increasing instability of the US’s democratic norms has prompted these references to hypernormalization.
Donald Trump is dismantling government checks and balances in an apparent advance toward a 'unitary executive' doctrine that would grant him near-unlimited authority, driving the US toward autocracy. Billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are helping the government consolidate power and aggressively reduce the federal workforce. Institutions like the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, which help keep Americans healthy and informed, are being haphazardly diminished.
Globally, once-in-a-lifetime climate disasters, war and the lingering trauma of Covid continue to unfold, while an explosion of generative AI threatens to destabilize how people think, make a living and relate to each other.
For many in the US, Trump 2.0 is having a devastating effect on daily life. For others, the routines of life continue, albeit threaded with mind-altering horrors: scrolling past an AI-generated cartoon of Ice officers arresting immigrants before dinner, or hearing about starving Palestinian families while on a school run.
Hypernormalization captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane."
"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
[In what ways and to what degree does the Fediverse perpetuate and/or amplify #hypernormalization?
In what ways, to what degree, and where does the Fediverse counteract or even battle against hypernormalization?
If experience serves, this post will be ignored or briefly read and then passed on in silence... which is sort of an answer.]
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
#CommunitariumProject
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo
"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."
via https://climatejustice.social/@mikeblake/114557063333541681
“We are in a period now when it’s absolutely essential to protest,” says Hartmann, citing the Harvard professor Erica Chenoweth, who argues that just 3.5% of a population engaging in peaceful protest can hold back authoritarian movements.
Ecco un articolo in italiano che parla di ipernormalizzazione:
That weird feeling that everything is breaking and yet you have to go buy groceries
#Hypernormalization #SocialGrief
I believe it is called #hypernormalization and as such is working perfectly? But I also recall an argument we had on Usenet where I was mercilessly trounced (and history proved you right) so you may have some insights on this that an Adam Curtis may have missed. You were there.
Did it start with Blackrock?
@Heliograph the trick is slanted language, vague generalities and completely devoid of context. My guess is answers are being harvested to later prove a point that doesn't exist.
All part of #hypernormalization
Sadly but not entirely surprising, it seems, that once #liberals lose hegemony, they turn #fascist faster than you can ,👏clap,👏your,👏hands and say " #interregnum ". This seems more true, the more capital one has command over. And Its not t he first time this happens...
So, I am afraid, that when we lament the #oportunism of big tech and other former #liberals it really falls short! They are not just hanging their flag into the wind, but they place a bet on the version of future they consider most likely to conserve their power and wealth. We really should consider them as actively bringing forward fascism at a historical crossroads! And for this, they should be fought!
Techfeudalism seams an accurate naming for the development in the us, but if i imagine what #techfeudalism actually will look like, I still see #fascism. And I think it is time people start calling it that way in mainstream media?!
#zuckerberg #trumpositivism #brandmauer #InterregnumProject #hypernormalization
(3/4) The US has been undergoing #hypernormalization for at least a decade now, and perhaps since the 2008 financial meltdown. Nobody sees any serious alternative, hence Fisher’s #CapitalistRealism.
At the same time, #LeftistMelancholia has prevented any serious opposition.
Our gerontocratic politicians still behave as if it’s the 20th century.
We are in a brave new world, and old political tactics are obsolete. Our problem is a failure of imagination—we’re consumed by things as they are.
(1/4) You know how it feels like we’re all living in some surreal dream state?
That’s #hypernormalization. It’s a term coined by Alexei Yurchak in his book, “Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More.”
Yurchak argues that, when the #SovietUnion fell, it came as a shock—but also not. In short, everyone had long-stopped believing in the Soviet Union as a system.
Soviet citizens, bureaucrats, and apparatchiks went through the motions without recognizing the system’s legitimacy.
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