[D66] Hypernormalisation

[A.O.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM
http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/adam-curtis-on-the-dangers-of-self-expression/6272

HyperNormalisation
 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam 
Curtis. In the film, Curtis argues that since the 1970s, governments, 
financiers, and technological utopians have given up on the complex 
"real world" and built a simple "fake world" that is run by corporations 
and kept stable by politicians. The film was released on 16 October 2016 
on the BBC iPlayer.

Etymology

The term "hypernormalisation" is taken from Alexei Yurchak's 2006 book 
Everything was Forever, Until it was No More: The Last Soviet 
Generation, about the paradoxes of life in the Soviet Union during the 
20 years before it collapsed.[3][4] A professor of anthropology at the 
University of California, Berkeley,[5] he argues that everyone knew the 
system was failing, but as no one could imagine any alternative to the 
status quo, politicians and citizens were resigned to maintaining a 
pretence of a functioning society.[6] Over time, this delusion became a 
self-fulfilling prophecy and the "fakeness" was accepted by everyone as 
real, an effect that Yurchak termed "hypernormalisation".[7]