A Boring Dystopia

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Hyper-Normalization (safereddit.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ruplicant@sh.itjust.works to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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A measured response to a common feeling in the dystopian zeitgeist

PS: testing if the video is playable from a link

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[–] ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago

Video is playable but no audio

[–] ruplicant@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

sorry for the muted video. it seems downloading the video from the redlib frontend yields no audio

original video

[–] oxomoxo@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

This is due to the way Reddit handles video. The video and the audio are two separate files that are combined by Reddit embedded media player. There are tools to combine them however I usually just go to the source to get the original instead or trying to pull it from Reddit.

[–] Uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Accurate explanation of how things are :(

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago

This is the entire Adam Curtis documentary on hypernormalization:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bv3Tr3jvZM&rco=1

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This was just in my queue the other day if you're after more on the topic.

[–] WHARRGARBL@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

This is amazing! I never would’ve stumbled across it on my own. THANK YOU!

[–] metoosalem@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah that was quite eye opening thanks

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago

[–] SailorMoss@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

“There it is again… that funny feeling”

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

The Victor Pelevin novel Homo Zapiens touches on this a little as well.