I remember when that documentary came out.
That feels like a lifetime ago. Everyone I knew thought it was over exaggerating and sensationalizing things.
God I hate how stubborn people are.
Comment on Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Here is the 2016 Adam Curtis documentary referenced in the article, by the same term we use to describe what’s happening: Hypernormalization.
It was a documentary I’d highly recommend when I saw it in 2017, during Trump’s first term. Now I think it’s required viewing, which is depressing since almost nobody has heard of it, despite living in the exact demoralizing and uncanny reality it describes.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 week ago
anachronist@midwest.social 1 week ago
Adam Curtis is the Cassandra of our age. I first saw Century of the Self when I was young. It depressed me and left me in a funk for weeks. Hypernormalization is great and yeah, a rewatch every year is warranted as more of its vision comes true.
dbtng@eviltoast.org 2 days ago
Nobody’s heard of it? Gawd. I’m sick of hearing about it. That movie is one long non sequitur.