HyperNormalisation: Adam Curtis's Documentary on a Simplified World

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Why it's here

HN points to it for its account of propaganda that sows distrust and confusion, and as a starting point for Adam Curtis's work.

What it covers

Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary arguing that politicians, financiers and technologists retreated into a simplified, fake version of the world because reality became too complex. It ranges across Trump, Brexit, Syria, Surkov's Russia and more.