I was reading this thread on the YCombinator forums and I think it explains (or at the very least) provides some context to HyperNormalisation and why we seem stuck, without having a way forward.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38702276

A few comments from the thread:

Today, we have become citizens of a global, Brezhnevian capitalist state, which, in its failure to provide an inspiring frontier—gone are the days of Kennedy’s “New Frontiers” or Obama’s “Change We Can Believe In”—has slowly ossified and wrapped back upon itself. My feeling is that all the troubles we’ve been witnessing over the last decade—Trumpism, Brexit, the rise of nationalism all over Europe, Russia’s virulent imperialism—are attempts to disrupt not just the dominant political systems, but the zone of eternal repetition. ⁠

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The idea that Western capitalism is self-defeating precisely because it is so successful in ensuring political and social stability, thereby stifling the people living under it. ⁠

The original article is this: https://www.switchyardmag.com/issue-1/bulgarianfrontier

What are your thoughts?

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