Hypernormalisation

[AB Editor]

Good morning all

There's be a lot of questions on here, especially in news, which amount to something like: "how did the world end up like this?"

I am sure many of you have seen this, but I think Adam Curtis' Hypernormalisation documentary has a pretty good explanation as to "how did we get here?"

[AB Editor]

You can pick it up on iplayer too: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c/adam-curtis-hypernormalisation

It covers the unreality of modern life, the radicalisation of islam, the creation of the suicide bomber, the handing over of power from politicians to markets, the death of a real movement on the left and the rise of the alt right.

If you haven't seen it and have time, it is well worth a watch

[Old_Geezer]

160 minutes ?!?

[AB Editor]

Yeah, one for the background or to actually watch :D

[AB Editor]

You did see my list of what it covered right? :)

[Kromovaracun]

It's really good. Best thing he's done since Century of the Self.

[Ellipsis]

Ed needs a break. I think it's a bit like the DJ who sets a "toilet break mix" playing ...

[Togo]

//Perhaps the most important part is that social media companies -- which make money from serving advertisements (and thus want you to visit and click often) -- are entirely fine with (a) misinformation, (b) echo chambers, and (c) personalized reality//

http://www.aguanomics.com/2016/11/hypernormalization-review.html

//HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. In the film, Curtis argues that since the 1970s, governments, financiers, and technological utopians have given up on the complex "real world" and built a simple "fake world" that is run by corporations and kept stable by politicians.//

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

I think most of us realise that the web is a virtual reality world Ed. The danger is our children and grandchildren are growing up without the back catalogue that we know as reality. Perhaps "The Matrix" was a documentary not a film. (^_*)

[Old_Geezer]

Ok but some of us on limited bandwidth limit the number of videos seen. I'll wait until the synopsis is published.

[AB Editor]

I really enjoyed it Krom. It was nice to have someone bring all these things I sort-of-knew together and line them up properly.

[Old_Geezer]

There is a preview here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/entries/02d9ed3c-d71b-4232-ae17-67da423b5df5.

It doesn't show the path from elsewhere to here, however it seems most of the problem suggested is in not knowing what is true and what false; but that's always been the case. Today false evidence is easier to create, in the past folk didn't have reliable trusted sources of information anyway. We are, always have been, and probably always will be left trusting or not, what others tell us.

[woofgang]

I am not sure that false evidence is easier to create today think of sea monsters........I think that false news etcetera is easier to disseminate, also for better or worse, more people know stuff.

[Old_Geezer]

Sea monsters were verbal or drawings. They had no Photoshop nor video editing.

[woofgang]

Indeed OG but in that time it was the mental? perceptual? equivalent.