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The BBC's Adam Curtis told us how we should understand our recent past. It's not what we were told or remember, but was he wrong?

HyperNormalisation was his first BBC release. It's on iPlayer in the UK and YouTube outside the UK.

This is the transcript.
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If you live in the UK you can watch Hypernormalisation - one of a series of similar films by Adam Curtis - on the BBC iPlayer here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

If you live outside the UK, you can watch it on YouTube here: youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?...
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But one of the people who did understand how to use this new power was Donald Trump.

Trump realised that there was now no future in building housing for ordinary people, because all the government grants had gone.

But he saw there were other ways to get vast amounts of money out of the state.
February 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The story begins in two cities at the same moment in 1975.

One is New York.

The other is Damascus.

It was a moment when two ideas about how it might be possible to run the world without politics first took hold.
February 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
**Transcript of Hypernormalisation, by Adam Curtis begins**

We live in a strange time.

Extraordinary events keep happening that undermine the stability of our world.

Suicide bombs, waves of refugees,

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, even Brexit.
February 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you live in the UK you can watch Hypernormalisation - one of a series of similar films by Adam Curtis - on the BBC iPlayer here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

If you live outside the UK, you can watch it on YouTube here: youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM?...
Hypernormalisation | Full Documentary | Adam Curtis
YouTube video by Adam Curtis Documentaries
youtu.be
February 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM