Robert F Kennedy Jr, the third-party candidate for US president, said a health problem he experienced in 2010 “was caused by a worm that got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”

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    Why is this world the way that it is? I feel like the world used to make some kind of sense. Now everything just feels like poorly written fanfic. I know it’s absolute bunk but the LHC transporting us to an alternate timeline is the only thing that even attempts to explain how weird everything is now.

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      This helped me start to understand:

      “HyperNormalisation is a 2016 BBC documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. It argues that governments, financiers, and technological utopians have, since the 1970s, given up on trying to model the complex “real world” and instead established a simplified “fake world” for the benefit of corporations and kept stable by neoliberal governments around the world. The film was released on 16 October 2016 on BBC iPlayer.”

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

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        The channel ‘The New Normal’ has it posted on YouTube. 2:45:00 is a commitment, but it’s listenable (you don’t need to watch it to get 90% of the points).

        I’m watching it now, it’s bringing up a lot of the 1971 vibes, Im curious if there’s overlap. It absolutely does seem like we’re all stuck in 1999. We hear of medical advances, or the economy improving, but no one see’s it in their active life, either because it’s all smoke and mirrors, or tangled up in beurocracy and legalisms to prevent release until existing wealth is positioned to monopolize it for sale if not just outright hoarded by the powerful - like stem cell sped up physical recovery, and soon, abortion (rich women can fly abroad).

        Idk. Maybe I’ll check back in in a few hours

        Edit; watch the l33t guy video, not the New Normal. They used an AI to redub the video with their written additions, of which I’m not going to catalogue, I’m just not going to support it. As soon as I heard “covid 19” from a film made in 2016 every red flag in my brain went off. Idk if TNN has permission to republish or if it’s just disgusting plagiarism but I don’t have time to look into it.