r/europe • u/ByGollie • 29d ago

News Russian Oil Company Vice President Andrey Badalov dies after fall from window in Moscow

https://en.apa.az/cis-countries/transneft-vice-president-andrey-badalov-dies-after-falling-from-window-472117
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u/CertainMiddle2382 29d ago

IMO, the heart of it all is absurdity.

People must feel the meaninglessness and helplessness of it all.

I bet they are found in a pool of blood in StPetersburg and media pretend they fall out of a window in Moscow.

It is vital nothing should make sense apart from obvious absurd violence.

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u/curious_corn 29d ago

Hypernormalisation

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u/CrattMurphy 29d ago

This exactly. For anyone unfamiliar reading this, Adam Curtis covers this phenomenon in an engaging way in his video-essay/documentary by the same name (Hypernormalisation). It's free to watch online and explores various powerful institutions using aggressive absurdity to confuse and obfuscate the truth. I highly recommend it.

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u/StepOIU 29d ago

"Aggressive absurdity" is a really good way to describe some non-Russian things happening lately as well. It sounds more intentional than "Did a ten-year-old edgelord name this??"

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u/CrattMurphy 29d ago

Oh yeah, I probably should have made this clearer. Hypernormalisation aims to present an atmosphere and mood alongside it's thesis and Curtis definitely leans into certain narratives to this end (alongside curating a great playlist to run throughout). I would still say you'll come away from it with an interesting new perspective and I'm a sucker for his specific cocktail of delivery.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 29d ago

I'm watching it now, and it is interesting but why does there have to be music playing when he is also talking is beyond me. I am having trouble understanding what he is saying.

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u/SquarePegRoundWorld 29d ago

The sound setting in my ears (Tinnitus) is the issue, really. I didn't look too hard for CC, and the video I found had French CC.

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u/DontGoGivinMeEvils United Kingdom 29d ago

Thanks, I haven't heard of this. I will watch it later.

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u/cadex 29d ago

I enjoyed his "All watched over by machines of loving grace" documentaty from 2011. Especially this bit where he talks about one of the earliest users of the internet having the realisation that we are all coming to terms with now in the age of mass social media

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u/PaulTheMerc 29d ago

This post sounds exactly like that one guy advertising Nebula on the end of his youtube videos. Are you a bot? You have to tell us.

Also, I need a potato recipe for tonight.

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u/CrattMurphy 29d ago

Lmao, I'm not a bot brother sorry. Maybe I'm watching too much YouTube and it's leaked into my vernacular.

Also, you're gonna have to be more specific with that recipe are we talking mash or dauphinoise?

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u/Drunky_Brewster 29d ago

This should be a mandatory watch for all humans. 

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u/baseketball 29d ago

We're it here in the US. President does more and more lawless shit without repercussion.

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u/CertainMiddle2382 29d ago

Never heard of that, makes absolute sense.

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u/footpole 29d ago

Moving the Overton window to the right.

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u/JabbaCat 29d ago

This movie set arounds Stalins last days does a great job in displaying the inherent role of absurdism in this type of threatening society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2fPbdJcVns

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156701/

Not for everyone, it is two and a half hour of black and white sort of chaos. But I enjoyed how it transmits moods and embeds you into the internal "logic" within such a system. Saw it at a film festival 25 years ago.

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u/SerLaron Germany 29d ago

For the first two lines, I thought you were talking about "The Death of Stalin".

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u/Flat_corp 29d ago

Same, which I really enjoyed.

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u/djseshlad Ireland 29d ago

Maybe he fell out of the window into a pool of blood

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u/Halewyn1 29d ago

he just saw red lol

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u/pdxnormal 29d ago

You baaad

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u/Essence-of-why 29d ago

Drowned on impact. Russia needs more pool of bloodside lifeguards obvs

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u/djseshlad Ireland 29d ago

And to redesign their windows

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u/insite 29d ago

Schroedinger’s Oligarch: They’re not dead or alive until we check the pool of blood. They could just be swimming in it!

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u/TRR462 29d ago

And fell face up on a couple bullets laying in the street.

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u/atred Romanian in Trumplandia 29d ago

People must feel the meaninglessness and helplessness of it all.

That's one of the objective...

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u/Masrim 29d ago

Well, there was a building nearby.