Mellowmarsh

Has anyone watched “ Hyper Normalisation “ on BBC iPlayer? It’s very interesting. But it’s just under 3 hours long, but no ads thankfully. HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis that argues governments, financiers, and technocrats have built a simplified, fake version of reality over the past 40 years to mask complex global problems. Core Thesis The Fake World: Instead of handling complex realities like economic crashes or geopolitical conflict, politicians and institutions retreated into a managed, reassuring illusion. The Term: Curtis borrowed the title from anthropologist Alexei Yurchak's work on the late Soviet Union, where citizens and officials knowingly maintained the pretense of a failing system until that collective fiction became accepted as normal. Complicity: Society went along with the illusion because simplicity felt safe, leaving leadership paralyzed and unable to handle real crises. Key Themes and Events Trumping Reality: Traces how financial shifts in 1970s New York allowed figures like Donald Trump to leverage the city's decay, and how modern political figures use strategic confusion (such as Vladislav Surkov's political theater in Russia). Global Chaos: Connects Cold War policies and Middle Eastern interventions to modern catastrophes, including the Syrian civil war, the migrant crisis, and the rise of suicide bombing. The Rise of Post-Truth: Explains inexplicable modern shocks—like Brexit and Trump's election—as the moment when hidden, neglected historical forces finally pierced through the artificial bubble

Being "in the mirror" represents your physical ego and conscious identity, while being on the "other side of the mirror" symbolises your subconscious, spiritual depth, or a threshold to unseen realms. Being in the Mirror (The Reflection) The Ego and Illusion: Standing in front of the glass means you look at your physical form, your social mask, and your surface identity. The Present Reality: Spiritual teachings often view the immediate reflection as truth of the physical moment—showing what you project outwardly to the world. The Observer: You are the active consciousness experiencing life through a biological lens, trapped temporarily in the feedback loop of how you judge your outer appearance and actions. The Other Side of the Mirror (The Unknown) The Portal or Gateway: Many esoteric and occult traditions view mirrors as thin veils or portals connecting our physical dimension to spiritual planes, ancestral realms, or parallel dimensions. The Unconscious Mind: Psychologically and spiritually, stepping through or looking past the surface reflection represents diving into your hidden shadow self, repressed memories, and deep intuition. The Divine or True Self: Some mystical traditions suggest that the other side holds the source of light—where the reflection ceases and pure, undivided consciousness or the divine begins.

Won’t that just be how reality grooves? There is just reality, yes?

What about if the you doesn’t break through will it really matter if they pass on the wise guy stunt?

Fair enough. 😉

Okay thanks for your honest and frank answer. 👍 Was just being curious.

Cool unwritten story bro. 😎

Why are you taking residence on this earthly planet with all these low life plebs, and not on some 100x higher dimensional plane with the rest of the alien conscious beings?

Just watched this…Oh my God, absolutely heartbreaking 💔

These videos are hysterical, my sense of humour. 🙂

You’re very handsome too, lovely sultry manly ruggedness to you there is, nice personality to boot, very aware and intelligent and kind and I’m so happy to be able to engage with people like you. So happy.

Oh yeah, I’m a bit hot and cold about life, but ultimately my sense of humour is what keeps me going, I love laughing at myself, until my belly aches. Oooh. 😀

@RickyFitts The reviews for the series were very good, people saying they too binged watched the whole series in one swoop because they couldn’t stop watching until the end.

Lovely. So lovely, have a lovely life living lovely. Don’t forget to contemplate that epic zen koan by yours truly, true being the operative word, you hear? 😉

Aww, thanks man, you are a lovely person. I love that you seem to nearly understand what I’m saying. People have said that to me before about writing a book, but I can’t be arsed. Maybe I ought too get motivated. 😉 This forum can be my book. Lol

I’ll be waiting. 😀 Thanks. I can’t help being a smart arse. 😉

Lol, you are so funny Wilhelm44 lol I don’t even know how I’m able to say these things they just pop out like an arrow, it’s so weird. Lol

@Wilhelm44 yeah it’s a bit of a mind boggler that one you need to contemplate a bit more. Lol

Yes, you are the knowing that cannot be known by the relative because the relative is known and that which is known knows nothing. This is just a different nuance that what Hyperion is saying.

Yes, this is all true, and cannot be untrue because in true knowing there’s no such thing as an untruth. Like seeing is true but seeing cannot be seen by the seen because the seen is the true something that sees nothing untrue.

LoL That’s why the non conceptual can’t be conceptualised. 😜 Because a concept has no concept of a none existing concept. 😂

Yes, so you can’t know the absolute, because you are the absolute. You are the noumenal phenomenonal. Knowledge is relative to the observer specific to a limited frame of reference. Omnipotence is absurdism within a limited reference frame. The relative cannot know or touch the Absolute because it is it, no more than two sides of the same coin ever see each other or touch each other because they are both one.

I’ve seen bits and bobs of that. It’s really fascinating and fun. Must catch up on some more. I’d forgotten about it actually. Good stuff though.

Don’t include the I Theres no need to include what’s already inclusive enough. You’re welcome, enough now.

My TOE is pointless but pointlessness is going to point out to all you conditioned believing beings the pointless point of this pointless theory just to let you know this pointless theory doesn’t belong to a “MY” because that belief is just a relativity un/true idea don’t you know, no I did/not know that, but now I do/not know that. More pointless discussions on my pointless toe, to follow, but don’t follow because it’s pointless you see. Meanwhile, enjoy the sound of this broken record, that’s if you dare of course, dare to tread off course this pointless thread treading.