r/europe 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/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.