{"id":345,"date":"2025-05-24T06:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/systems-are-crumbling-but-daily-life-continues-the-dissonance-is-real-well-actually-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T06:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T06:28:59","slug":"systems-are-crumbling-but-daily-life-continues-the-dissonance-is-real-well-actually-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/systems-are-crumbling-but-daily-life-continues-the-dissonance-is-real-well-actually-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Systems are crumbling \u2013\u00a0but daily life continues. The dissonance is real | Well actually | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hypernormalization captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s \u201cthe visceral sense of waking up in an alternate timeline with a deep, bodily knowing that something isn\u2019t right \u2013 but having no clear idea how to fix it\u201d, Harfoush tells me. \u201cIt\u2019s 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: \u2018What Pop-Tart are you?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his 2016 documentary HyperNormalisation, the British film-maker Adam Curtis argued that Yurchak\u2019s critique of late-Soviet life applies neatly to the west\u2019s decades-long slide into authoritarianism, something more Americans are now confronting head-on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump is not something new,\u201d Curtis tells me, calling him \u201cthe final pantomime product\u201d 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.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/ng-interactive\/2025\/may\/22\/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo\">www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/ng-interactive\/2025\/may\/22\/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hypernormalization captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane. It\u2019s \u201cthe visceral sense of waking up in an alternate timeline with a deep, bodily knowing that something isn\u2019t right \u2013 but having no clear idea how to fix it\u201d, Harfoush tells me. \u201cIt\u2019s reading an article about childhood hunger and genocide, only to scroll down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}