• Rookwood@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I mean it’s classic Orwellianism to make up wild claims so that they seem normal when you do it. It’s also called hypernormalization. Say crazy outlandish thing that doesn’t exist. Then when it happens no one is surprised. The Big Lie. Etc.

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      6 months ago

      Not sure if you got hypernormalisation right.
      It’s when state, population and even opposition play along by their known roles in a common, simplified fake-reality, ignoring a looming collapse, pretending everything is fine because noone can imagine a life outside the predominant system.
      Haha, how crazy would that be, right?

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      6 months ago

      I still remember conspiracy theory that we are ruled by pedophiles…

      In early 2000s…

      In 2020s this is a well know, properly documented fact.

      Casting couch jokes… Were not jokes either…

      Mass government surveillance without warrants… Also a know fact … Now

      All of these were “conspiracies”

      Lab leak theory was suppressed aggressively, now it is considered viable but we just don’t know

      Regime propganda appratus can’t even keep its narrative straight anymore but sadest part is that with polarization, they don’t have to. Normies will larp their team no matter what, like docile dogs

      It is disgusting seeing what should adult people behave in such a way. Caring more about politics than people around them

      So we really got the rulers we deserve as a body of people.