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Notes, stories, and essays about our relationship with the physical world. There will be dragons, but if we see them for what they are, we don't have to be scared of them anymore. Some dragons are pretty friendly, actually.

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  1. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    because they died on tv (opens the original)

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    Hypernormalisation is a documentary by Adam Curtis detailing the rise of neoliberal capitalism and the construction of a simple simulacrum of reality that we all get to live inside so we never challenge the powers that control us. This is how I ended up reading the actual source of the word and will never stop asking people to read Alexei Yurchak’s Everything was Forever Until It Was No More, about the false realities created by authorities in Soviet Russia to maintain the state’s coherence.Norm

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