Adam Curtis “argues that an army of technocrats… have conspired to create an unreal world”. Watch the complete documentary here.
Original Video Description: “The cult documentary maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Though he’s spent the best part of four decades making television, Curtis’s signature blend of hypnotic archive footage, authoritative voiceover and a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bizarre historical tangents is better suited to the web, a place just as resistant to the narrative handholding of broadcast TV as he is. He argues that an army of technocrats, complacent radicals and Faustian internet entrepreneurs have conspired to create an unreal world; one whose familiar and often comforting details blind us to its total inauthenticity.”
HyperNormalisation: A Different Experience Of Reality (2016) Documentary By Adam Curtis (via BBC):
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Further Viewing
Digital Anthropologist and author Rahaf Harfoush briefly explains the term ‘HyperNormalization’, from its Soviet origins, to how it might help to make sense of the world in 2025:
Adam Curtis interviewed about the documentary by Jarvis Cocker on BBC radio:
If you’re in the mood for more media criticism from opinionated Brits, here’s a bunch from polemicist Christopher Hitchens: