An interesting read. The threat of #inequality seems plausible to me. It also make sense to me that we cannot think beyond the dominating truisms and thought-terminating clichés. #democracy #economy #capitalism #hypernormalisation
CMW: British filmmaker Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation - interesting but useless without the data to backup the research.
Climate Extremes as the Norm
"In the absence of effective global climate mitigation actions, we may thus witness a qualitative regime shift from a world dominated by individual climate-related hazards and impacts to one where compound occurrences become the norm."
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Messori, G., Muheki, D., Batibeniz, F., Bevacqua, E., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., & Thiery, W. (2025). Global mapping of concurrent hazards and impacts associated with climate extremes under climate change. Earth's Future, 13, e2025EF006325. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF006325
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF006325
#Fossilfuels #impacts #CompoundHazards #ClimateExtremes #RegimeShift #bushfires #ExtremeHeat #floods #droughts #CropFailures #climate #hypernormalisation
Hydroclimatic whiplash events and hypernormalisation
The Nasa report: “...is a stark reminder that a hotter planet means more severe floods and droughts. This has long been predicted, but is now being seen in reality."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/nasa-data-reveals-dramatic-rise-in-intensity-of-weather-events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
#FossilFuels #HydroclimaticWhiplash #floods #drought #ExtremeHeat #climate #MassDelusion #reality #RealityDenial #hypernormalisation
Interesting article, about how people cope when #systems are crumbling.
I just wonder, haven't all systems been "broken" in some way since forever?
What #system has ever been able to cope with everyone's reality all the time in all circumstances?
#ClimateDiary And apologies, I realise 
I kind side-stepped (ran out of space) - the main point of the article, which is that, whilst we all know things are not normal, we pretend they are; this is #hypernormalisation. Here Harfoush’s IG post on this. What I was trying to say was: maybe we can at least try and break through this, by trying to have real conversations with neighbours and friends; and that could be a start for finding new ways. IDK.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEhR7_Rge95/?igsh=MW94ZnM1cmQ5cDlkYw==
“Donald Trump is not something new,” Curtis tells me, calling him “the final pantomime product” of the US government, where the powerful are abandoning any pretense of common, inclusive ideals and instead using their positions to settle scores, reward loyalty and hollow out institutions for personal or political gains.
Abed Abou Shhadeh on #hypernormalisation and Israel:
"Two decades ago, Russian American anthropologist Alexei Yurchak coined the term 'hypernormalisation' to describe the absurd and surreal reality of the Soviet Union during its final two decades.
"In that era, both citizens and officials knew the Soviet system was dysfunctional and no longer reflected reality - yet everyone continued as if nothing was wrong.
"Few could have imagined that the Berlin Wall would collapse, or that the mighty Soviet Union would disintegrate into 15 independent states, with Russia relying on US wheat imports in the 1990s.
"Looking back, it’s easy to identify the broken parts of that system and understand just how surreal and unsustainable - what Yurchak framed as hypernormalised - it truly was."
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Israel has become like the Soviet Union in its dying days | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-has-become-soviet-union-its-dying-days
The Putin playbook is quite well laid out in the documentary #HyperNormalisation. It’s on YouTube.
Step 1 is to destroy the idea of objective truth
Step 2 is to sow confusion
Step 3 is to set allies against each other
These steps need not be sequential. They can be concurrent, but they set the scene for authoritarian leadership to dominate the media narrative with little or no scrutiny of their actual actions and agenda.
Seem familiar?
Hey, so recently I was watching #Wisecrack 's latest video on the subject of #hypernormalisation and wanted to what do the #mastodon -ians think about this ?
#HyperNormalisation ist ein Dokumentarfilm des britischen Filmemachers Adam Curtis aus dem Jahr 2016. Ich sehe ihn heute zum ersten Mal udn kann ihn sehr empfehlen, weil er nach Antworten auf die aktuelle Weltlage sucht
A good response to #hypernormalisation seems to be #Dada.
Postfaktizität ist nicht einfach "Relativismus" & fehlendes
#factchecking. Postfaktizität bedeutet: reihenweise billig zusammengezimmerte Gegenwirklichkeiten, beliebig austauschbar innerhalb des geteilten Rahmens, dass nichts real ist außer der persönliche Profit.
Und damit wird innerhalb des postfaktischen Rahmens jede Erwartung an faktische Konsistenz dieser opportunistischen Gegenwirklichkeiten nicht nur überflüssig, sondern aktiv aufgehoben. Ihre Proponenten selber scheinen gerade von diesem "epistemischen Chaos" mehr zu profitieren, als wenn sie sich die Mühe machten, ein in sich kohärentes Worldbuilding zu betreiben. Das Netz der Lügen ist nicht einfach ein Gegenbild zum Netz der Wahrheiten, sondern die tiefe Überzeugung, dass es keine Netze gibt: wenn alles mit allem zusammenhängt, leben wir im postfaktischen Zeitalter in einer Schaumwelt.
Nothing says 'global unity' quite like powerful white men forming a club to spread their special brand of chaos.
Listen to this week’s episode An Unpunished Attempted Coup Paves the Way for a Successful One here:
https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/an-unpunished-attempted-coup-paves-the-way-for-a-successful-one.
@sammi
> China is a super power
People were the saying the same thing about the USSR right before it collapsed. See Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis:
https://fightforinfo.com/videos/watch/59a76113-8010-4fec-a623-fb92ab1a586e
> A force that usa is scared of
Why? China would obviously lose in a naval war, which is why they haven't started one. They would just as obviously win if the US tried a ground invasion, just like Japan did. Which is why they tried to make peace through trade.
@strypey
Yes, the escalatory nature of #USA foreign policy seems to go back quite far, and we see it repeated over and over because it serves the #weaponsIndustry
Adam Curtis' documentary, #Hypernormalisation (which we don't agree with the innuendo aimed at Russia in) seemed to put a lot of the blame on #HenryKissinger, which is probably correct, but we wonder if every president since #JFK has been a meat puppet.
