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…