Hyper Normalisation.

[Mellowmarsh]

 

Has anyone watch 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

[Mellowmarsh]

Mods move this if it’s in the wrong section. Apologies if it is.

[kavaris]

7 minutes ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Mods move this if it’s in the wrong section. Apologies if it is.

Hey. Id respond to it in the context of a more spiritual-esque thing, if you want, but thats prolly jus me... i know others dont think like i do tho, and want everything to be distinct.

[Mellowmarsh]

Just now, kavaris said:

Hey. Id respond to it in the context of a more spiritual-esque thing, if you want, but thats prolly jus me... i know others dont think like i do tho, and want everything to be distinct.

I think the documentary is right up your street. 
 

It even mentions something about The Grateful Dead somewhere in the programme. It’s a coincidence that you just happened to be the first to respond to this thread. 

[kavaris]

1 minute ago, Mellowmarsh said:

I think the documentary is right up your street. 
 

It even mentions something about The Grateful Dead somewhere in the programme. It’s a coincidence that you just happened to be the first to respond to this thread. 

i see grateful dead, i *click* grateful dead.

[Mellowmarsh]

2 minutes ago, kavaris said:

i see grateful dead, i *click* grateful dead.

I think human society is steeped with the Spiritual underpinnings that refer to our core values, philosophical beliefs, and transcendent principles that support a person's worldview, actions, or an institution's framework. So that’s why I posted in spirituality forum. 

[kavaris]

14 minutes ago, Mellowmarsh said:

I think human society is steeped with the Spiritual underpinnings that refer to our core values, philosophical beliefs, and transcendent principles that support a person's worldview, actions, or an institution's framework. So that’s why I posted in spirituality forum. 

Oooo i had a SiiiiQ thought...

"Politically fueled Hymn to Trumpaeus"

[kavaris]

Our god... lord in heaven (now its turnin into like an elogy)

Trumpaeus... Time

The trim, true and proper...

The Guide, the clock tower

Time... Running

Trump... Singing

etc.

etc...

[Mellowmarsh]

Watching the documentary made me think about how some humans are like cancer cells just hell bent on destroying their host. 
Such is the nature of life. I’ve heard many people say they think humans are like cancer cells. Most humans are normal cells thank God.

 

 

[kavaris]

1 minute ago, Mellowmarsh said:

Watching the documentary made me think about how some humans are like cancer cells just hell bent on destroying their host. 
Such is the nature of life. I’ve heard many people say they think humans are like cancer cells. Most humans are normal cells thank God.

I know jus what ya mean. I wanna say i felt that same thing today. Granted, i sorta forget exactly wat it was now, but it had a similar sorta tone, of which was like this "humans are becoming...." but i forget (ill prolly remember later and be like dANG it, i remember now)

[kavaris]

@Mellowmarsh I think everyone retired for the morning / night... After the round of crazy we all went through?i feel like we really satisfied the world for the next... 5 days or so  Or hey, they are all dreaming a great dream of maybe like ... native american spiritual type stuff (my guess), A native american dream-like theyve never dreampt before! (i wish i had dreams like that... hence im not asleep)