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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:
I was recently introduced to the concept of “hypernormalization” coined to describe the Soviet Union.
Hypernormalization is when the economic and social system is obviously broken, but instead of fixing it, people just accept it as normal because the truth is too complex or inconvenient to change.
So politicians and citizens alike are resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society.