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    Hypernormalisation

    Adam Curtis docs are always worth watching, the new one on the BBC has popped up immediately on YouTube.



    HyperNormalisation

    We live in a time of great uncertainty and confusion. Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks. And those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed - they have no idea what to do.

    This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening - but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them.

    It 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.

    But there is another world outside. Forces that politicians tried to forget and bury forty years ago - that then festered and mutated - but which are now turning on us with a vengeful fury. Piercing though the wall of our fake world.
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    Sounds like a sequel of sorts to "The Power of Nightmares" which he made about 12 years ago. And who could have imagined then how even more fucked up things could get.
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    And for those who don't want to watch this on YouTube, you could always look here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Sounds like a sequel of sorts to "The Power of Nightmares" which he made about 12 years ago. And who could have imagined then how even more fucked up things could get.
    I've never been able to find the clip from that where Cheney describes the imaginary Bin Laden Bond villain underground complex with fucking floor plans on TV.

    I very nearly isolated and put it up on YouTube myself...

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    At 1:29:00 he tells quickly the story of how Trump lost his casinos...

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    Finally got to see the rest of it today - I recommend it.

    These aren't like Michael Moore 'docs' BTW, far from it. Curtis doesn't proselytize an agenda he just tries to explain how things come about.

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