What's 'Normal' in a Hyper-Normalized World? - LewRockwell

What's 'Normal' in a Hyper-Normalized World? - LewRockwell

Now that the entire economy depends on these hyper-normalized speculative bubbles for its “growth” and “wealth,” there is a profound fear of a future based not on artifice but on the real world. Humans are quick to habituate to current conditions, i.e. consider them normal. This rapid normalization has advantages and disadvantages. Normalization is an adaptive strategy, enabling humans to adapt readily to conditions that are considerably differe…

The Sun in the Net national film awards were dominated by the film Waves, co-produced by Wanda Adamík Hrycová. In her acceptance speech for the main award, she urged people not to remain silent. “I could never have imagined how completely normalization could have taken place in practice in the 1970s. And now I completely understand it,” she says in the interview. You can read in it: why she is considering leaving Slovakia; why she does not feel …