Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022

Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar... by O-K on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:18AM (#49461533)

There’s a great doc by Adam Curtis about HyperNormalisation

From wiki:

It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments

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Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar... by jack_riminton on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:00AM (#49461819)

Reminds me of Plato's Allegory of the Cave

So I don't think it'a new thing, but maybe it's getting worse

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

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Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar... by gizajob on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:41AM (#49462618)

Baudrillard restated, as a cause rather than an effect.

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Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar... by _bernd on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:03AM (#49463390)

I can highly recommend "the agony of the real" if you haven't read it yet :)

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Re:Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundar... by shrubby on Thursday August 27, 2026 @05:44AM (#49462142)

Yes, it's awesome and exactly what I had in mind.

The century of the self must be recommended also.

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