A term I just learned about that really describes everything right now: hypernormalisation. The elaborate pretense that clearly and obviously failing systems are not failing and everything is ok. Originally coined to describe life just before the Soviet Union collapsed, but also applies to late stage capitalism.
Crucially, it does not imply a conspiracy. It is engaged in by the majority of society, because the alternative is unbearable and unimaginable.
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@dawngreeter I think it's important not to be tempted to chalk this up to Human Nature, though. Hypernormalization is created. It's made by wealthy people paying for right wing think tanks and publicity machines. the Urgency of Normal messaging that convinced people to infect themselves and their children with Omicron was carefully crafted, focus-group tested, and blasted out with hundreds of millions of dollars of ads and media blitzes.
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@Geoffberner I do think human nature is a part of it. Of course, there are clearly individuals and power centers that drive a large chunk of it. There is blame, both for action and inaction (this mostly being various government agencies and institutions).
But even for the complicit ones, I do think there is an element of human nature driving situational blindness. Late stage capitalism is a story of power centers and capital owners copying each other's actions and no one knowing why exactly.
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@dawngreeter no doubt you're right. Highly paid propagandists like the guy from the Brownstone Institute have a great feel for the weaknesses they can exploit in people. The buttons are there and they know how to push them.
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