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That weird feeling that the world is wrong -- #hypernormalization

Experts say action can break the spell. “Being active politically, in whatever way, I think helps reduce apocalyptic gloom,” says Betsy Hartmann, an activist, scholar and author of The America Syndrome, which explores the importance of resisting apocalyptic thinking.

theguardian.com/wellness/ng-in

The Guardian · Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is realBy Adrienne Matei

“Trump Turns Your Personal Data Over To Israeli/CIA-Affiliated Company To Amass Citizen Data/Blackmail Scheme”

by Mark Taylor in DeMOCKracy.Ink on Substack

“You are watching a merger of Big Tech, Big Government, and Artificial Intelligence -- branded as patriotism . They're building infrastructure for digital authoritarianism”

open.substack.com/pub/mark192/

DeMOCKracy.Ink · Trump Turns Your Personal Data Over To Israeli/CIA-Affiliated Company To Amass Citizen Data/Blackmail SchemeBy Mark Taylor
#Press#US#Trump

#Politics #Crumbling #Autocracy #Collapse #Hypernormalization

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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real | Well actually | The Guardian

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Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening.
And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

The Guardian · Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is realBy Adrienne Matei

#hypernormalization

"Why hypernormalization is relevant in the US

The increasing instability of the US’s democratic norms has prompted these references to hypernormalization.

Donald Trump is dismantling government checks and balances in an apparent advance toward a 'unitary executive' doctrine that would grant him near-unlimited authority, driving the US toward autocracy. Billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are helping the government consolidate power and aggressively reduce the federal workforce. Institutions like the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, which help keep Americans healthy and informed, are being haphazardly diminished.

Globally, once-in-a-lifetime climate disasters, war and the lingering trauma of Covid continue to unfold, while an explosion of generative AI threatens to destabilize how people think, make a living and relate to each other.

For many in the US, Trump 2.0 is having a devastating effect on daily life. For others, the routines of life continue, albeit threaded with mind-altering horrors: scrolling past an AI-generated cartoon of Ice officers arresting immigrants before dinner, or hearing about starving Palestinian families while on a school run.

Hypernormalization captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane."

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The Guardian · Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is realBy Adrienne Matei

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real

[In what ways and to what degree does the Fediverse perpetuate and/or amplify #hypernormalization?

In what ways, to what degree, and where does the Fediverse counteract or even battle against hypernormalization?

If experience serves, this post will be ignored or briefly read and then passed on in silence... which is sort of an answer.]

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The Guardian · Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is realBy Adrienne Matei
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@rms

I believe it is called #hypernormalization and as such is working perfectly? But I also recall an argument we had on Usenet where I was mercilessly trounced (and history proved you right) so you may have some insights on this that an Adam Curtis may have missed. You were there.

Did it start with Blackrock?

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(3/4) The US has been undergoing #hypernormalization for at least a decade now, and perhaps since the 2008 financial meltdown. Nobody sees any serious alternative, hence Fisher’s #CapitalistRealism.

At the same time, #LeftistMelancholia has prevented any serious opposition.

Our gerontocratic politicians still behave as if it’s the 20th century.

We are in a brave new world, and old political tactics are obsolete. Our problem is a failure of imagination—we’re consumed by things as they are.

(1/4) You know how it feels like we’re all living in some surreal dream state?

That’s #hypernormalization. It’s a term coined by Alexei Yurchak in his book, “Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More.”

Yurchak argues that, when the #SovietUnion fell, it came as a shock—but also not. In short, everyone had long-stopped believing in the Soviet Union as a system.

Soviet citizens, bureaucrats, and apparatchiks went through the motions without recognizing the system’s legitimacy.