HyperNormalisation

Adam Curtis's 2016 BBC documentary arguing that governments, finance, and technology have constructed a simplified false version of the world that both they and we know is fake — but continue to inhabit because no one can imagine an alternative.

Provides the most influential documentary account of contemporary political unreality — HyperNormalisation's argument (borrowing Alexei Yurchak's term for late Soviet unreality) that we live in a deliberately constructed artificial reality maintained by elites who have given up on genuinely transforming the world created the dominant framework for understanding post-2008 political disorientation.