Now at min 18 of Hypernormalization. Not impressed so far. Seems a schticky just-so narrative compared to Century of Self. Will live tweet
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Patti Smith is poor motif for Left shift of 70s. Assad-Kissinger is weak tack on Arab world. Trump intro seems forced #Hypernormalization.
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At min 29. Now we're back to Middle-East post-Reagan after a brief Russian detour. Hmm. 80s priorities. No China so far. #Hypernormalization
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Two big reactions so far. 1) It feels like "if I am confused, so must everybody else" and 2) Noisier=more important. #hypernormalization
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Why is he acting like suicide bombing is a 1980s Iran/Assad invention? Fidayeen go back centuries, similar tactics have always existed.
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Okay, banks to cyberspace via narrative is decently critical path, but weird free leap to techno utopianism #hypernormalization
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This narrative of computing history with main plot weaving through California counterculture and LSD is basically wrong. #hypernormalization
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Adam Curtis was born in 1955. He'd have been 25-35 in 80s. This is basically about how he got woke or something. Not about world.
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