• ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    19 hours ago

    Here is the 2016 Adam Curtis documentary referenced in the article, by the same term we use to describe what’s happening: Hypernormalization.

    It was a documentary I’d highly recommend when I saw it in 2017, during Trump’s first term. Now I think it’s required viewing, which is depressing since almost nobody has heard of it, despite living in the exact demoralizing and uncanny reality it describes.

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      13 hours ago

      Adam Curtis is the Cassandra of our age. I first saw Century of the Self when I was young. It depressed me and left me in a funk for weeks. Hypernormalization is great and yeah, a rewatch every year is warranted as more of its vision comes true.

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      16 hours ago

      I remember when that documentary came out.

      That feels like a lifetime ago. Everyone I knew thought it was over exaggerating and sensationalizing things.

      God I hate how stubborn people are.