Origin: Russian
A term to describe the dissonance between a life lived and the "official" version of reality in the sense that people are forced to accept and believe an official narrative instead of the stark reality, because the latter is just so bad or antithetical to what was originally believed.
"When a majority of society feels themselves to be so much a part of a system that it becomes impossible for them to see beyond it; when fakeness is hypernormal."
Adam Curtis, 'HyperNormalization' (BBC, 2016)
