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		rtets on Feb 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HyperNormalisation (2016) [video] "History may not repeat itself but it does rhyme..." Some guy, last century Are there really no parallels for popular opinion straying significantly from established facts and resulting in irrational behaviour before natural correction...? Are the South Sea Bubble and the Cold War not two such such examples of this?

rtets on Feb 9, 2017 [–]

In considering our time more pivotal than any before, are we not guilty of the same sensationalism and irrational behaviour that this film observes?

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