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There’s a great doc by Adam Curtis about HyperNormalisation https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM From wiki: It argues that following the
by O-K 21d ago
There’s a great doc by Adam Curtis about HyperNormalisation
https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM
From wiki:
It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments
- jack_riminton 21d agoReminds me of Plato's Allegory of the Cave So I don't think it'a new thing, but maybe it's getting worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
- shrubby 21d agoYes, it's awesome and exactly what I had in mind. The century of the self must be recommended also.
- gizajob 21d agoBaudrillard restated, as a cause rather than an effect.
- _bernd 21d agoI can highly recommend "the agony of the real" if you haven't read it yet :)