Hypernormalization: The Rise of TRUMPISM Caused Conservative World Leaders To Sell You Out So THEY Benefit From Corporate Greed

If you're feeling a disconnect, you're not alone; Most of us, for many reasons, are feeling a deep sense of disconnection between what is happening in the world around us, and how society acknowledges those events…or doesn’t. Whether it’s about climate change or our current political regime or whether or not we’re using technology ethically, there’s this viscerally felt notion that old systems are no longer working. All the while, life SEEMS to be going on as normal. Which can be as crazy-making as any other type of gaslighting; Years later, filmmaker Adam Curtis took this concept and ran with it for his 2016 BBC documentary, aptly titled HyperNormalisation, which essentially argued that this time period—and events like the rise of TRUMPISM, BREXIT, THE WAR IN SYRIA, AND MORE—WAS A SELF FULFILLING PROPHECY OF SORTS, CAUSING WORLD LEADERS TO GIVE UP ON TRYING TO RESHAPE THE WORLD, AND OPT INSTEAD TO ESTABLISH A SIMILAR, ALBEIT “FAKE” WORLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF CORPORATIONS; For those that are feeling this way, that something is deeply off with the world,” author and digital anthropologist Rahaf Harfoush says “you’re not alone.” and in fact, there’s actually a name for this collective feeling. It’s called hypernormalization; As Harfoush explained, hypernormalization was a term first coined by historian Alexei Yurchak in his 2005 book "Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation". In it, Yurchak described the paradox of living in the Soviet Union before its dissolution in 1991, when everyone knew the system was failing, but since no one could imagine a possible alternative to the status quo, politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. SOUND FAMILIAR?