As terrible as Donald Trump’s war is, you wouldn’t know it from America. Outside the political obsessives on Twitter or BlueSky, people here simply aren’t preoccupied about the blackouts and bombings — certainly not compared to previous foreign adventures. Forget the Gulf War or even Vietnam. When George Bush launched his so-called “shock and awe” campaign against Iraq less than a quarter of a cen...
The author uses the concept of "hypernormalization" to describe a situation in which a society continues behaving as if everything is perfectly normal despite knowing that what is happening is absurd. This concept can be seen as an extension of the idea of cognitive dissonance, in which individuals hold beliefs or values that are inconsistent with their actions or experiences. In this case, the author argues that the current war in Iran is a result of hypernormalization, in which the American em...