Directed by Adam Curtis
We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to the post-truth world. How we got to where we are now…
Adam Curtis Donald Trump Vladimir Putin Ronald Reagan Henry Kissinger Gordon Brown Jane Fonda Ivana Trump Benjamin Netanyahu Tony Blair George W. Bush Barack Obama David Cameron Nigel Farage Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Muammar Gaddafi Victor Gotbaum Ruhollah Khomeini Timothy Leary John Perry Barlow Mark Abene Nancy Reagan Louis Farrakhan Richard Doty Robert Parry Elena Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu Jim Goodwin Show All…
HyperNormalization, 하이퍼노멀라이제이션, 하이퍼노멀리제이션, היפרנורמליזציה, ГіперНормалізація, Гипернормализация, 超正常化, Hipernormalizacija
Germany Mindpirates Film Night 
USA True/False Film Festival 
UK12 Germany UK USA 
This is the documentary equivalent of reading Wikipedia while drunk.
Ultimately, Curtis’ argument is that the oversimplification of complex problems breeds oversimplified solutions, and when these overly simple solutions are implemented—often violently—they produce unintended consequences that further complicate the calculus. I would like to keep this front and center, because while Curtis has many aesthetic and methodological weaknesses, the framing of his thesis remains sound, even if he himself is not fully beholden to it. The case for complexity is a flexible position, one that does not divide political and ideological camps into categories of right and wrong—or even of more right and more wrong—but flattens them, from communism to fascism, across political parties and religious and cultural divides. He is not saying they are the same—a false equivalency to…
Decades of Western politicians sacrificing lives to construct/preserve their fake reality and keep imposing their "oversimplified solutions" on "oversimplified issues", like the largest most horrific theater ever performed... And people are shocked that a racist egomaniac, with a background in fraud and reality television, might somehow be good at this game.
Oh my God... Teacher invented Nap Time to control ous..
I’m floating 3 feet off the ground in lotus pose while my eyes glow
Your retired college professor paranoid ramblings. Some very persuasive, some mad, all packaged in that familiar know-it-all voice. Curtis manner of unpacking multiple tangents is always impressive in their immersive quality as much as some of his occasional cheap shots are stupid and he seems hilarious unaware of how much oversimplification his form needs. All of the material and arguments, Curtis intertwines does pack a power and his desire to make one ask questions comes through his pedagogical project. The most political act left available is trying to make sense of things.
Hoop-Tober, year three, film #18:
A towering postmodern, post-media masterpiece regardless of the fact that it hypernormalizes and thus (inconsequentially) oversimplifies its own historical-to-contemporary investigation of hypernormalization, due to it addressing this potential shortcoming by promptly asserting that art/creative expression, which the film certainly knows that it is, hypernormalizes and therefore (irrelevantly) paraphrases the subject matters that it takes into consideration & critiques, by existing in a realm separate from reality - documentaries as well, of course - ergo any qualms that I could've possibly had with the piece were instantly and, almost by force, rendered valueless & vacant; a film, as many are, constructed just as purposefully for the dialogue that it will inevitably provoke between its speculators as it was for the content alone, re: reading responses and discussions from observers following their viewings has been just as fascinating & fruitful as reading the audiovisual text of the film itself.
I read about literally everything that is happening right now in the world on 4chan when I was 12 years old
Nobody can say what the world is anymore. We are post-truth, post-politics, and post-reality.
Adam Curtis' documentary HyperNormalisation takes the thesis of his previous film, Bitter Lake, that complex events are deliberately oversimplified and expands it to suggest that not only is everything oversimplified, it is contradictory and non-understandable. We - the people, the politicians, the financiers - are complicit in our own confusion. All everyone knows is that the world is broken. Whatever your political leanings, does anyone think the current global system works? Or even any current national system? Sure, the person you vote for might get elected, but will anything really change, and will you understand it if it does?
We live in a world of information…
Refugees from the truth.
A lot of this is bunk, but it's still cool. Like you know he's fundamentally right about stuff, even if you'd never put it ~that~ way because you're not 16. It goes hard though. Pretty much it's listening to Rage Against the Machine.
Or: How Michael Bay Inadvertently Helped Start the Iraq War
