Understand the intentional confusion behind our post-political world with the disturbing and little known 2016 BBC documentary 'HyperNormalization'. Viewer discretion advised.
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.”
Hannah Arendt
We are living in a post-political world.
A world of intentional confusion created to control us.
A performance art piece designed to look like democracy, but run by actors portraying politicians in an effort to uphold the public’s perception that we actually have a say in how we’re governed.
I know that sounds cynical, and I did not come to this conclusion easily or lightly.
It is, however, fact, laid out by an extraordinary 2016 BBC documentary.
(Back before the Trusted News Initiative.)
HyperNormalization is a must-see Adam Curtis film for anyone interested in how politics has become a highly orchestrated drama designed to divide and divert attention from the real power being wielded behind the scenes.
(Click the image to link to YouTube.👇 The film is age-restricted and won't allow me to embed it.)
The film begins with the assertion that the idea of how to run the world without politics began in 1975.
While it can be argued that this idea is much older, HyperNormalization provides evidence of the takeover of America’s largest city when decades of propping up the welfare state with endless loans led to a coup by New York City’s bankers.
Meanwhile, a simultaneous situation was unfolding in Damascus, where US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s ideas of global governance would create a clash with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad that would unleash devastating consequences that we continue to experience today.
What is revealed in this compelling real-life tale of public relations and managerial manipulation is a story of fake news and false heroes and villains created by a political elite playing with power.
And the obfuscation is not limited to western actors.
Among the revelations in this film is the fact that Vladimir Putin utilized an avant guard performance artist to create political theatre and chaos among the citizens of Russia.
The film also addresses the loss of hope and sense of apathy that led to a shift towards embracing virtual “reality” and escapism.
As we watch the degradation of the political players and systems in which we live, it’s easy to succumb to the distractions of Netflix, alcohol, cannabis and other mind-numbing substances.
But when we do so, we become complicit in our own demise.
If we’ve learned nothing over the the past few years, we can see that handing the reins of authority over our lives to those who purport to represent us is a dangerous game with potentially grave consequences.
The film’s description reads, "How we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed and have no idea what to do.”
The confusion is ubiquitous, and it’s intentional.
But understanding the game, the movie, the matrix, gives us agency.
And agency is empowering.
And empowerment is what we need not just to survive these uncertain times, but to thrive in the face of any circumstance.
Now more than ever, we need to seek truth, think rationally, and act with integrity.
“A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong. And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want.”
Hannah Arendt
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