Here’s the ELI5 on normal accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents …pic.twitter.com/LjuI1uj8LB
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Here’s the ELI5 on normal accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents …pic.twitter.com/LjuI1uj8LB
Hypernormalization = Adam Curtis documentary title, borrowed from theorist of Soviet collapse Alexey Yurchak. The documentary was meh, but core idea is good. TINA syndrome (There Is No Alternative) coupled with a mighty effort to maintain normalcy that is so surreal, it’s weirdpic.twitter.com/Svvb254193
Shameless shill: I’ve been developing my own paywalled theory of it. The paywall is ironic and also my own contribution to hypernormalcy
https://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/control-failure-1 …
Top 5 hypernormal accidents unfolding 1. Covid 2. Stock market 3. China (yes, the whole country) 4. Trump 5. Return of Biden (I like him and will vote for him, but him winning nomination is definitely a hypernormal accident... in an aggravate-and-delay-the-inevitable way)
The op forest fires don’t even make the top 10 worldwide currently I’m afraid
This has been your regularly scheduled reality commercial break. Now back to fiddling with telescopes and astrophotography while the world burns.
“failure cascade” sounds like the tl;dr for every old big blackout, where the root cause would be like, a rat died on the wrong switch.
But now, this failure cascade *is* the rat...

Failure cascade. Rough.
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