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#003 Adam Curtis - Do We Really Want Change?

Under The Skin with Russell Brand

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Hypernormalization

The film is called hypernormalization. What do you mean by it? The term comes from ago, a rather interesting guy who wrote about what it was like to live in the sovet union late in the middle of the 19 eighties. He pointed out that everyone knew that everything was not right. They knew that those in control had no control. But because there was no other picture of the world and you were so within this system, you accepted it as normal and just went on. And i'm trying to argue in this firm is not that in any way, we're like the soviet union. We're a very different society.

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