Can’t Get You Out of My Head
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Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World is a six-part series that explores how modern society has arrived to the strange place it is today. The series traverses themes of love, power, money, the ghosts of empire, the history of China, opium and opioids, the strange roots of modern conspiracy theories, and the history of Artificial Intelligence. Inspired by the 2016 apex of populism--the political ideology which presents The People as morally good, and The Elite as morally bad--the underlying aim of the series is to show why the critics of Donald Trump and Brexit were unable to offer an alternative vision for the future.
  • shitstorm [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Curt-pilled and ready. Hypernormalization was a real trip for me.

  • MichelLouise [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Watched the first two parts and this one is the wild ride.

    About Hypernormalization:

    In The Guardian, reviewer Charlie Lyne writes, "[this] 165-minute opus makes a feature of its sheer unwieldiness, as Curtis veers from social history to conspiracy theory via the odd rambling bar-room anecdote, like a man who’s two-dozen browser tabs into a major Wikipedia binge"

    Well now it’s the same thing except the Wikipedia binge is 8 hours. And it’s good.