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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  For example:

  HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex “real world” and instead established a simpler “fake world” for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.[2]

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  …I miss the days when radical statements sounded far off and crazy. Now they just sound like statements of undeniable truth.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’d say it’s defined by the dominant group, but that group isn’t necessarily an ethnic group. For a example, Sundar Pichai and Jensen Huang are certainly a part of that group. It’s not limited to white Anglo-Saxons anymore.

  We really need to stop looking at the issue by pigeonholing it into racial, gender, or sexual categories, because that does not reflect the reality. There are gay oligarchs. There are women oligarchs. There are oligarchs of every skin tone.

  These are counter-examples, of course; deviations from what we might consider the “norm,” which is cishetero white male oligarchs. Pointing out that it’s not limited to the latter isn’t a denial that the latter form a disproportionate majority of oligarchs. That’s the part a lot of people miss when I bring this up.

  The fundamental issue though is class disparity, which we cannot lose sight of; even if there are other demographic trends within that disparity. Trying to make it about anything else is overly reductive and harmful.

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