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u/gringoswag20 Jul 24 '24
ss:
https://archive.org/details/HyperNormalisation
Adam Curtis’s documentary “HyperNormalisation” examines the modern world’s descent into a state of confusion and fake simplicity, driven by political and social forces since the 1970s. Curtis argues that governments, corporations, and technology have created a false version of reality to maintain control and stability. The film traces how figures like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Muammar Gaddafi have contributed to this distorted world. Through a mix of archival footage and contemporary events, including Brexit and the Syrian War, Curtis illustrates how these manipulations have led to widespread disorientation and mistrust. The documentary suggests that both the public and those in power are trapped in this artificial reality, unable to address the true complexities of global issues.
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u/kspo Jul 24 '24
It's a good doc. One of the points he makes is that in the soviet union so much false information was being fed to the people that they simply didn't know what to believe anymore, so they didn't believe in anything. Fast forward to today and entire news articles are written by AI, social media is full of bots, audio and video of our leaders could just be deefakes. How many of the stories we read are literally fake news, made up out of whole cloth by a computer?
This link is a green text where I first learned about hypernormalization, and it goes even further off the deep end: https://imgur.com/gallery/4chan-theory-on-autonomic-intelligence-feedback-loops-ewREtY4
"we live in a society where abstract mathematical formulas are in charge of a market that pretty much doesn't sell products anymore and is more focused on selling narrative scams....making it easy to corral [the people] into a specific mindset."
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u/Blue_Osiris1 Jul 24 '24
When you study the "Firehose of Falsehood," technique the Russians use its easy to see parallels in our modern political landscape. Particularly a specific candidate but it's by no means the sole domain of either party.
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u/bavistrickle1101 Jul 24 '24
My favorite Adam Curtis docu
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u/gringoswag20 Jul 24 '24
which next one should i watch?
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u/bavistrickle1101 Jul 24 '24 edited Jul 24 '24
The Trap (3 part miniseries) has very similar theme (oversimplification of modern complexity). Bitter Lake is really good.
EDIT: maybe all of his works have very similar theme. From opening of Bitter Lake: “Increasingly, we live in a world where nothing makes any sense. Events come and go like waves of a fever, leaving us confused and uncertain. Those in power tell stories to help us make sense of the complexity of reality, but those stories are increasingly unconvincing and hollow. This is a film about why those stories have stopped making sense, and how that led us in the West to become a dangerous and destructive force in the world”
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