• jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’ve heard of this one. Maybe I’ll check it out.

    The downside of reading a lot of depressing non fiction is I increasingly feel like I’m living in a cuckoo clock, and get frustrated with how everyone else seems oblivious and uncaring.

    • punksnotdead@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      If you want an understanding of the cuckoo clock and how it came to be, I highly recommend you watch the BBC documentary HyperNormalisation.

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

      It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.