We're back at the end of the world again.
Jesus this shit is getting tired, but I do still enjoy this video.
So, it was in a Guardian article I read over the weekend whereI learned an interesting term- 'Hypernormalization'. I've considered the fact that I've intentionally kept this platform generally consistent in promotion of bummer life-free content, as it seems you can't swing a cat without hitting ten bummer life-full feeds in every direction. But am I putting my head in the sand? Not at all. Like everyone, I'm just trying to maintain some degree of normalcy.
A brief excerpt regarding this response reads like so;
How do you describe when everything feels wrong, but at the same time, everyone is acting like it’s normal?
Hypernormalization might be the word that you’re looking for.
The term describes life in a society where institutions are crumbling, but people are still carrying on their lives like normal.
“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has,” digital anthropologist Rahaf Harfoush explains in a video.
The increasing instability of the US’s democratic norms has prompted these references to hypernormalization. Donald Trump is dismantling government checks and balances, billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are helping the government consolidate power and institutions that keep Americans healthy and informed are being haphazardly diminished.
What makes dysfunction so dangerous is that we might simply learn to live with it. But understanding hypernormalization gives us language – and permission – to recognize when systems are failing, and clarifies the risk of not taking action when we can.
“Meaningful change requires collective awakening and decisive action,” says Harfoush. “And we need to start now.”
How I kickstart collective awakening and decisive action however I've yet to find in the manual.
One thing I can elaborate on is the absolute need to periodically find time to play, which I've recently done in my friend's front yard in the form of the beginnings of a tiny truck course;
Tearing myself away from it so I could go to work the other night was a monumental bummer.
I got these made after talking a hyper-reluctant Corndog into making us a small run of Dank cüzies featuring them. I'll definitely have them by next Wizard Staff Day, which I should note happened again on Saturday for the 14th time since 2011. (I've done something like, 18, but who's counting?)
