HyperNormalisation Page #2
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- 2016
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"In trying to join them, I felt overwhelmed
"by yet another form of bureaucracy."
What she was describing was the rise
of a new, powerful individualism
that could not fit with the idea
of collective political action.
Instead, Patti Smith and many others
became a new kind of individual radical,
who watched the decaying
city with a cool detachment.
They didn't try and change it.
They just experienced it.
Look at that. Isn't that cool?
I love that, where, like, kids
write all over the walls.
That, to me, is neater than any art sometimes.
"Jose and Maria forever."
Oh, there's a lot of things, like,
when you pass by big movie houses,
maybe we'll find one, but they
where you can see clips of, like,
Z, or something like that.
People watch it over and over.
I've seen people, I've checked them out. All day!
I've gone back and forth and they're still there
watching the credits of a movie,
cos they don't have enough dough,
but it's some entertainment, you know?
Instead, radicals across America
turned to art and music
as a means of expressing
their criticism of society.
trying to change the world outside
the new radicalism should try and change
what was inside people's heads,
and the way to do this was
through self-expression,
not collective action.
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But some of the Left saw that
something else was really going on -
that by detaching themselves and
retreating into an ironic coolness,
a whole generation were beginning to lose touch
with the reality of power.
Shut up.
Shut up!
One of them wrote of that time,
"It was the mood of the era
"and the revolution was deferred indefinitely.
"And while we were dozing, the money crept in."
SOBBING:
What's your date of birth, Larry?
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.
Trump started to buy up
derelict buildings in New York
and he announced that he was
going to transform them
into luxury hotels and apartments.
But in return, he negotiated the biggest tax break
in New York's history, worth 160 million.
The city had to agree because they were desperate,
and the banks, seeing a new opportunity,
also started to lend him money.
And Donald Trump began to transform
New York into a city for the rich,
while he paid practically nothing.
At the very same time, in 1975,
there was a confrontation between
two powerful men in Damascus,
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