#hypernormalization

[somanyjacks]

oh there's a name for it

[lemurious]

Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real | Well actually | The Guardian

[senoritafish]

This is exactly it. I would like to stop living in "interesting" times, please.

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[jdyf333]

hypernormalization by Davivid Rose Via Flickr: ("First articulated in 2005 by scholar Alexei Yurchak to describe the civilian experience in Soviet Russia, hypernormalization describes life in a society where two main things are happening. The first is people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken. And the second is that, for reasons including a lack of effective leadership and an inability to imagine how to disrupt the status quo, people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction–give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial, and dissociation." "Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening." ["People who feel the 'wrongness' of current conditions acutely may be experiencing some depression and anxiety, but those feelings can be quite rational–not a symptom of poor mental health, alarmism, or a lack of proper perspective, says Caroline Hickman, a psychotherapist and instructor at the University of Bath. 'What we’re really scared of is that the people in power...don’t give a shit about whether we survive or not.'”] ---Adrienne Matei, TheGuardian dot com, 5.21. 2025.) Please click here to read my "autobiography": thewordsofjdyf333.blogspot.com/

[half-assed-genius]

“The price of groceries is gettin’ ridiculous!” —says the couple ordering $27 of fast food from someone making $8.75/hour.

We’re not just underpaying workers. We’re outsourcing the cost of our own overconsumption.

You can’t complain about inflation while demanding convenience from a system built on exploitation. You’re not just in the drive-thru—you are the traffic.

[iheartvelma]

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[shoot-me-baybee-one-more-time]

definitely not the first person to notice this but memes are the new dada actually, absurd response to an increasingly uncertain world (or has it always been this way and I wasn't old enough to notice? though I do think there has been a paradigm shift, really)

have more thoughts on this if anyone's curious

[dateamonster]

perhaps problematic of me but i still kind of stan the horror movie ax-wielding madman sorry neurospicy type killer in the sense that im intimately familiar with the way neurodivergence and mental illness will force you into one of two boxes: stupid and nice or scary and hostile. and personally i support my fellow freaks in their right to pick the latter.

[remyfire]

The Senate filibuster is still going strong right now. If you haven't contacted your reps yet and are in a position to do so, this is a great time to do it, to show them that this kind of pressure is good but that more is needed. If you've already contacted them, do it again. Even if you're in a red state. Hold their feet to the fire. Scare the shit out of them regarding their jobs and livelihoods being on the line, if nothing else. I know we're tired. I know we're cynical. But if this is the last gasp of our democracy, then it's us administering CPR that has the power to bring it back again.

[behindthearmory]

All this nonsense and I’m helping mom pick out a new leather tote

[gale-dekarios]

rose dekarios, post-game ^.^

so you're a student wizard and your professor is a bit dry even though you can tell that he's trying.

one day in the middle of one of his lectures your favourite drag performer shows up, hands him off something he forgot at home, kisses him, tells him he'll see him later that night, and leaves.

your class immediately bursts into a flurry of questions, and it turns out that not only is your stuffy illusions professor married to your favourite drag performer, not only did they meet during the ilithid invasion of baldur's gate, not only did they themselves have tadpoles, but they were also the ones that stopped the invasion.

this is wild already. then your professor credits your favourite drag performer as the reason he didn't blow himself up with a netherese orb, which he was ordered to do by the goddess of magic, mystra, who he also used to date.

i have to reiterate that your professor unironically says 'pish posh' and thinks that reading books written three centuries prior is 'thrilling'.

what do you do?

[mightyflower]

some of my coworkers are such hypernormal women & one of them the other day asked a girl who just started whether she was childless bc she doesn’t want kids or bc she has fertility issues. i was like this isn’t even my fight but i myself would like to kill you with hammers.

[mistergoddess]

tonally insane movie night where i watch bitter lake (2011. fantasy short film where all actors wear fursuits. terrible reviews.) and bitter lake (2015. 2+ hour adam curtis documentary about the us in afghanistan. amazing reviews.) is absolutely going to happen at some point

[thenervebible]

CONNIE PANZARINO at a pride march in Boston circa 1990

[ID: Connie is marching along in her sip 'n' puff (SNP) wheelchair. She is wearing a patterned poncho and sporting a green felt party crown on her head. She styles a pair of wire-rimmed glasses with her slicked back hair. She is smiling. Attached to the back of her wheelchair is a large green cardboard poster that reads "Trached Dykes Eat Pussy Without Comin' Up For Air!" followed by a pink upside-down triangle with a stick figure person in a wheelchair at the centre (a symbol for disabled women)].

the cyborg & the crip by Alison Kafer

[ID: “Trached dykes eat pussy without coming up for air.” Connie Panzarino, a longtime disability activist and out lesbian, would attach this sign to her wheelchair during Pride marches in Boston in the early 1990s. Shockingly explicit, her sign refuses to cast technology as cold, distancing, or disembodied/disembodying, presenting it instead as a source and site of embodied pleasure. “Trach” is an abbreviation of tracheotomy, a medical procedure in which a breathing tube is inserted directly into the trachea, bypassing the mouth and nose. Someone with a trach, then, can, in effect, breathe through her throat, freeing her mouth for other activities (another version of this sign is “Trached dykes french kiss without coming up for air”). From a cyborgian perspective, this sign is brilliantly provocative and productive. It draws on the pervasive idea that adaptive technologies grant superior abilities,not merely replacing a lost capacity but enhancing it, yet it does so in a highly subversive way. The message here isn’t about blending in, about passing as normal or hypernormal, but about publicly announcing the viability of a queer disabled location. It’s disnormalizing, adamantly refusing compulsory heterosexuality, compulsory able bodiedness, and homonormativity. As Corbett O’Toole argues, it challenges the perceived passivity of disabled women, presenting them as actively pleasuring their partners, thereby graphically refuting stereotypes linking physical disability with nonsexuality.]

[diphowell]

Hypernormalization, Phil.

[sarasa-cat]

Hypernormalization captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane. It’s “the visceral sense of waking up in an alternate timeline with a deep, bodily knowing that something isn’t right – but having no clear idea how to fix it”, Harfoush tells me. “It’s reading an article about childhood hunger and genocide, only to scroll down to a carefree listicle highlighting the best-dressed celebrities or a whimsical quiz about: ‘What Pop-Tart are you?’” In his 2016 documentary HyperNormalisation, the British film-maker Adam Curtis argued that Yurchak’s critique of late-Soviet life applies neatly to the west’s decades-long slide into authoritarianism, something more Americans are now confronting head-on. “Donald Trump is not something new,” Curtis tells me, calling him “the final pantomime product” of the US government, where the powerful are abandoning any pretense of common, inclusive ideals and instead using their positions to settle scores, reward loyalty and hollow out institutions for personal or political gains. Trump’s US is “just like Yeltsin in Russia in the 1990s – promising a new kind of democracy, but in reality allowing the oligarchs to loot and distort the society”, says Curtis.