"“HyperNormalisation” is a word that was coined by a brilliant Russian historian who was writing about what it was like to live in the last years of the Soviet Union."
https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/12/06/the-antidote-to-civilisational-collapse
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@schmidt_fu An ex-colleague* recommended I watch this video: https://youtu.be/fh2cDKyFdyU

If it wasn't so long I would have when he mentioned it last year.

*He's currently travelling/working around Australia, not bad for a lad from North Manchester :)
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@bazbt3 Yeah, it's the same movie they talk about in the interview. It has a trailer inside, so you can pretend you have seen it all ;-)

Pretty depressing stuff BTW, but worth thinking of...
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@schmidt_fu A trailer you say, hmmm… :D
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