Hypernormalisation
Sep 25th 2016, 4:25 am
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Hypernormalisation
This came up on my Facebook feed. I wondered if anyone else had seen the publicity or knew anything about it. Wonder if we'll be able to watch it if on iPlayer:
BBC - Adam Curtis’ new film HyperNormalisation to premiere on BBC iPlayer this October - Media Centre
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BBC - Adam Curtis’ new film HyperNormalisation to premiere on BBC iPlayer this October - Media Centre
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Sep 25th 2016, 11:22 am
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Re: Hypernormalisation
from that link, which I believe is totally rubbish
"The film shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us, we accept it as normal.
All these stories are woven together to show how today’s fake and hollow world was created. Part of it was done by those in power - politicians, financiers and technological utopians. Rather than face up to the real complexities of the world, they retreated. And instead constructed a simpler version of the world in order to hang onto power.
The film shows how this strange world was built by all of us. We all went along with it because the simplicity was reassuring. And that included the left and the radicals who thought they were attacking the system. The film reveals how they too retreated into this make-believe world - which is why their opposition today has no effect, and nothing ever changes."
"The film shows that what has happened is that all of us in the West - not just the politicians and the journalists and the experts, but we ourselves - have retreated into a simplified, and often completely fake version of the world. But because it is all around us, we accept it as normal.
All these stories are woven together to show how today’s fake and hollow world was created. Part of it was done by those in power - politicians, financiers and technological utopians. Rather than face up to the real complexities of the world, they retreated. And instead constructed a simpler version of the world in order to hang onto power.
The film shows how this strange world was built by all of us. We all went along with it because the simplicity was reassuring. And that included the left and the radicals who thought they were attacking the system. The film reveals how they too retreated into this make-believe world - which is why their opposition today has no effect, and nothing ever changes."
Sep 25th 2016, 12:30 pm
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Re: Hypernormalisation
We have created a world where many people believe what they see on TV. Weird.
Sep 25th 2016, 1:03 pm
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Sep 25th 2016, 1:16 pm
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Sep 25th 2016, 1:51 pm
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Re: Hypernormalisation
Surely it all boils down to mass hysteria & propaganda as the tool of politicians & government, right down to the simple advertising, TV programs, in the movies...right in front of you on the smart phone or internet
Subliminal messages in everything [conspiracy theory] its everywhere - eat more, slim fast, cures for everything, sex & violence - there is no stopping it & now the BBC will program to air streaming on iplayer to tell everyone that Hypernormalisation is acceptable.
Do we have your attention sucker, if so, 'keep on watching & sucking it up'
Switch off from the TV, the computer, do not listen to the radio or news items, detach, better still 'disconnect' one's self from social media, otherwise you have bought in to Hypernormalisation
