Hypernormalization
In a nutshell, this documentary is almost entirely about how our perceptions of the world are shaped, and how often the world we ‘see’ is fake. It is reality twisted by those in power in an effort to gain and maintain control over what people see and, thus, what people do and how they react. This is often perpetrated by the government with a technique called ‘perception management’ that makes reality something to be manipulated to suit their needs (like the Reagan administration’s painting of Gaddafi as a terrorist leader and America as a shining moral beacon in the world meant to fight him). This fake reality can interact with other fake realities and inspire their emergence by others (like the Soviet Union’s portrayal of being great and working when it was falling apart, which led to the US thinking it was stronger than it was). These fake realities have led to problems in their futures (like the extreme emergence of suicide bomber terrorists after their initial ...
