I enjoy playing my 1-player game of "hypermiling" my plugin hybrid car on my commute, balancing maximum fuel efficiency with "can I drop my kid off on time".
This morning, I found myself factoring in "hmm, what are the odds the Iran-Israel-US war escalates, and the Straight of Hormuz, causing gas shortages" into my equation
For more on Hypernormalisation, here's the quality podcast, "Sad Girls Against The Patriarchy:
Since when does the President decide unilaterally to bomb and invade another country, risking the start of a world war?
#hypernormalization #NoKings
I was thinking #weltschmerz but #hypernormalization works too
Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The #dissonance is real https://buff.ly/ipNDnwN
#vocabulary #mentalhealth #systemiccollapse #compartmentalize #shutdown #copingstrategies #resistance
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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
[In what ways and to what degree does the Fediverse perpetuate and/or amplify #hypernormalization?
In what ways, to what degree, and where does the Fediverse counteract or even battle against hypernormalization?
If experience serves, this post will be ignored or briefly read and then passed on in silence... which is sort of an answer.]
#SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity
#CommunitariumProject
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo
"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."
via https://climatejustice.social/@mikeblake/114557063333541681
(3/4) The US has been undergoing #hypernormalization for at least a decade now, and perhaps since the 2008 financial meltdown. Nobody sees any serious alternative, hence Fisher’s #CapitalistRealism.
At the same time, #LeftistMelancholia has prevented any serious opposition.
Our gerontocratic politicians still behave as if it’s the 20th century.
We are in a brave new world, and old political tactics are obsolete. Our problem is a failure of imagination—we’re consumed by things as they are.
(1/4) You know how it feels like we’re all living in some surreal dream state?
That’s #hypernormalization. It’s a term coined by Alexei Yurchak in his book, “Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More.”
Yurchak argues that, when the #SovietUnion fell, it came as a shock—but also not. In short, everyone had long-stopped believing in the Soviet Union as a system.
Soviet citizens, bureaucrats, and apparatchiks went through the motions without recognizing the system’s legitimacy.
The Strange, Surreal Feeling Of Going About Your Day While The World Crumbles
https://junkee.com/longform/mundane-tasks-world-ending-hypernormalisation
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The obligation of performing normality despite an acute awareness of just how not normal things are is enough to make anyone feel disconnected from “real” life. Especially, when such performance is motivated by a habitual lack of hope that anything can change.
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