HyperNormalisation 2016 | Class Discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM&t=874s

In this video the topic of discussion is about what is going on with the world. It started with the year 1975 between to cities, New York City and Damascus. On this year they set up a new committee to run the cities finance and 8 of them were bankers. The banks want to control the city. The financial institutions took power from the politicians and started to implement new rules. This new institution started laying off people, teachers, policemen, fireman. Certain people that lived in the city and stuck it out just tried their best to live through this time. 

Donald Trump play a role in New York. He realized that this was no money in buying housing for people but he saw that there was other ways to make money by buying up old buildings. With these building he was promising to turn them into luxury hotels. In my interpretation this would allow people to move back into New York and bring back the money into this city. He also had to negotiate the biggest tax break in New York's history. It was worth $160 million dollars. The city agreed and the banks started to loan him money. Donald Trump paid nothing while the city was transforming into a city for the rich.

While in Damascus in the same year there was two powerful men who were butting heads. These two men were Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State and Hafez Al-Assad who was President of Syria. There was fear that these two countries would destroy each other with nuclear weapons. Henry believed that history has always been a struggle of people, nations, groups for power. But also believe that this struggle can be controlled and unit all people. Kissinger wanted to keep the middle east separated so it would keep them in a check and balance system. Al-Assad found about this and was enraged by it. All he wanted was revenge. During this time people we in a state of depression or no real expectation of the future. The term Hyper Normalization explained, the people had to fake and play along with everything that was going on, knowing the the economy was crap. "The fakeness was hyper normal" they state in the video.

When the new president of the United States came into term Ronald Reagan, it was a new way of looking at things. A bright future for men. But there was a war waged in Sabra. President Reagan had to react to this massacre. He sent Marines as a peace keeping force. But this just made things worst. The idea of sacrificing yourself/suicide to destroy many enemies while you do it was introduce to the middle east. The idea of suicide bombers were introduced into the middle east. This was a way they attack Americans. It is interesting to think that suicide was not in the Kuran but they found a loop hole. This loop hole tricked people into using themselves as human bombs.

Cyber space generation was introduce and the banks used it to a line themselves with other banks.  LSD was a drug that people used during this time and people thought this drug was a way to open their minds to get away from the real world. This new idea of cyber space was similar to the movie "The Matrix" being able to go into a cyber world and act freely in that world. Colonel Gaddafi was blamed for the attacks that happened but there was no real attempts by Colonel Gaddafi to deny that he did these attacks. They then started to fear him because of the possibility of a nuclear attack. After the tension, America attack Libya to get Gaddafi. My many children were kill in this attempt to get Gaddafi. 

In the 1980s people started to report UFO's and that the government was conducting secret experimental weapons. People later realized that the government was using certain individuals to think that their were aliens. The government staged these UFO sightings to cover up what they were really doing. The went as far as planning fake secret government documentation and having an individual finding it, making it look like they where hiding it. The government want to control what worlds perception of what where in the skies. They wanted to control what the public thought was real. 

There was a computer that was programmed to be a therapist. This AI would reflect back the problem in a form of a question. This made people feel good about themselves. The computer was call Eliza. The battle that happened in Iraq was also mentioned. Around 2003 was when they started to use suicide bombing again to spread fear. It would seem that there is always turmoil around the world and there are sometimes answers to the problem but mostly there are no real answers. People react to the problems, meaning their is a event that happens, for example a suicide bomber kills lots people and people react to that. 

In conclusion my thoughts about this video is that is seems to he a historical depiction of major events that has happened around the world. The major events from 1975 to recent events was talked about in this video and depicted in a very dream like way, almost as if it was not real, I will use the word Hyper Normalization is a good way to explain this video. It seems fake but all this turmoil is very real.