I think “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” may be of more interest, topically, to hacker news readers, because it converges on the use of computing as a means of controlling social unrest.

Can watch it here https://thoughtmaybe.com/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head/

Hypernormalisation is kind of a miss.

It might be true, but it doesn't work because Curtis himself is hypernormalising — he isn't a journalist, he tells stories and emotions rather than a left-brained truth.