[Procrastes]

This reminds me of the central ideas in Adam Curtis's Hypernormalization[1]. I feel the pressure of the complexity, too, but attempting to oversimplify complex things has consequences.

"Politicians, financiers and technological utopians, rather than face up to the real complexities of the world, retreated. Instead, they constructed a simpler version of the world in order to hang on to power. And as this fake world grew, all of us went along with it, because the simplicity was reassuring."

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

[aspenmayer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y

[bsenftner]

Trying to watch, I have never had a youTube video with such a poor experience. Every 20 seconds there is a 2-5 second buffering. extremely painful.

[genewitch]

it's on your end, works fine here and i go out of my way to piss google off.

with that being said, both my extremely liberal doctor of political science friend and myself (i lean authoritarian and center) find it to be ... underwhelming.

[toofy]

i’ll second this. if you haven’t seen hypernormalisation yet, it’s absolutely worth watching. you can usually find it circling on youtube in various places, just make sure you don’t watch one of the weird copies, the comments will usually indicate.

it will feel entirely disjointed but the way he brings it all together is nothing short of incredible.

ps: the soundtrack is amazing.

pps: nsfw and ya may not want to watch with kids unless documentary footage of some sorta horrific stuff won’t bother them.