Mellowmarsh

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Has anyone watch Hyper Normalisation on BBC iPlayer? It’s very interesting. But it’s just under 3 hours long, but no ads thankfully. HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis that argues governments, financiers, and technocrats have built a simplified, fake version of reality over the past 40 years to mask complex global problems. Core Thesis The Fake World: Instead of handling complex realities like economic crashes or geopolitical conflict, politicians and institutions retreated into a managed, reassuring illusion. The Term: Curtis borrowed the title from anthropologist Alexei Yurchak's work on the late Soviet Union, where citizens and officials knowingly maintained the pretense of a failing system until that collective fiction became accepted as normal. Complicity: Society went along with the illusion because simplicity felt safe, leaving leadership paralyzed and unable to handle real crises. Key Themes and Events Trumping Reality: Traces how financial shifts in 1970s New York allowed figures like Donald Trump to leverage the city's decay, and how modern political figures use strategic confusion (such as Vladislav Surkov's political theater in Russia). Global Chaos: Connects Cold War policies and Middle Eastern interventions to modern catastrophes, including the Syrian civil war, the migrant crisis, and the rise of suicide bombing. The Rise of Post-Truth: Explains inexplicable modern shocks—like Brexit and Trump's election—as the moment when hidden, neglected historical forces finally pierced through the artificial bubble

That is the one question to all y( our) answers.

Yes, and I believe that’s what everyone does, who is interested in nondual message, they describe the same idea in multiple different ways, and most are aligned but some descriptions can seem contradictory and oxymoronic.

😂.. you’re such fun to interact with, so naturally easy. Just the way I like it.

I too have heard about that as well, and also how prisoners of war who were held in camps were able to escape their situation by going into their own mental mind space which felt comfortable for them.

@Wilhelm44 It feels like a coincidence that we both experienced a gun to our head. I understand this happens to loads of people. And also a coincidence is that 44 is my house number. My mother died on the 4th and I had 4 children. The number 4 is very dominant in my life.

I too was held at gunpoint while walking home from a visiting the library, I later found out by the police that the gun was loaded , he was an escapee from prison, he was after money for drugs. I won’t go into details but I survived because there was another man walking his dog at the exact same place who managed to diffuse the situation. I remember the moment as feeling a sense of surreal calm sweep over me even as it was simultaneously terrifying.

Speculation is not this natural immediacy. Speculation dams up the spontaneous flow.

I don’t mind what happens. There is no mind minding the mind.

There’s no peace without war. I don’t mind what happens.

It’s both terrifying and beautiful at the same time because the snake has to eat something to stay alive. Something wants to stay alive so this something has no choice but to eat itself. And in doing so keeps itself immortal. Its like a self sustaining feed back loop.An energy feeding upon itself.

Being terrified is allowed. It’s okay to be terrified. There’s nothing wrong with it, there’s nothing wrong with you, everything is allowed to be unconditionally. Even torture and abuse is allowed. Therefore being aware you are conscious can be seen to be a curse because it’s terrifying. Being swallowed alive by a boa constrictor snake would be terrifying for me.

Jim’s amazing. I love listening to him. Notice how effortless his talks are. There’s no tension, there’s just an oozing outpouring of pure immediate clarity.

They’re like little sparkling diamonds in your pocket, you didn’t know was there, but was there the whole time. Thank you 4 being here 4 💎