In January, comedian Ashley Biz published Instagram video From itself, trying to describe a heavy mood in the air. “How does everything feel …?” She says, she gives up the camera and fails the camera.
Watch the digital anthropologist Harvosh, the video, and got it immediately.
“Welcome to my excessive bone club,” Harvoush said in A. Video response. “I am very sorry because you are here.”
“Excessive Relatives” is a prior word, 10 dollars, but it embodies the strange and empty atmosphere of the United States in 2025.
In 2005, researcher Alexei Yurchak explained in 2005 to describe the civil experience in Soviet Russia, describing hyper life in a society in which two main things occur.
The first is the people who see the regulations and institutions of government broken. The second is that, for reasons that include the lack of effective leadership and the inability to imagine how to disrupt the current situation, people continue in their lives as usual despite the systematic functional imbalance – give or take a severe load of fear, splendor, denial and separation.
“What you feel is the separation between a vision that the systems fail, and that things do not work … However, the institutions and people in power only, such as, ignore them and pretend everything will go on the road,” says Harvosh in her video.
Within 48 hours, Harfoush’s video acquired millions of views. (She currently has just less than 9 meters). It spread in “Mother Groups, Friends Chat circles, political branch, coupon societies, and even walking groups in dogs,” Harvush told me, along with differences: “Oh, this is what I felt!” And “people who put their friends with notes such as:” We were just talking about this! “
Why is the relevant commission over?
The instability of the democratic standards of the United States led to these references to excessive ambition.
Donald Trump dismantles government checks and balances in clear progress towards “Unitary executive“The doctrine that will give it almost local authority, and the US leadership towards tyranny. Assistance The government is working to unify power and return Reduce Federal Manpower. Institutions like National Institutes of Healththe Disease control and prevention centers and Food and Drug AdministrationWhich helps to keep Americans in good and enlightened health, diminishes randomly.
Globally, climatic disasters that were in the world, war and the ongoing shock of Covid continues, while the AI TV threatens to destabilize people, gain livelihood and connection with each other.
For many in the United States, Trump 2.0 It is the existence A Tenth Impact on daily life. For others, the routine of life continues, albeit involved in the horrors of the mind change: the last pass. cartoon One of the ice officers who arrest migrants before dinner, or hear about Palestinian families hunger during the school tour.
Hyperopathy picks up this approximation of the functional and inferiority.
It is “a gorgeous feeling of waking up in an alternative timetable with a deep physical presence, knowing that something is incorrect – but he has no clear idea of how to fix it,” Harvush told me. “He reads an article on hunger and genocide in childhood, just to scroll down to the quiet list that highlights the best celebrities or an eccentric test about:” What is Bob Bob? “
In his 2016 documentary, British movie maker Adam Curtis has argued that Yorchk’s criticism of the late Soviet life applies to the decades -long -to -Western segment, which many Americans face now face to face.
“Donald Trump is not a new thing,” Curtis says. The ideal Instead, use their sites to Settlement of gradesand Loyalty and Hollow Institutions to achieve personal or political gains.
Cortis says Trump is the United States is “just like Yeltsin in Russia in the 1990s – and he promised a new type of democracy, but in reality the oligarshists are allowed to plunder and distort society.”
Why is the concept of virgin hyper?
Watching large -scale systems can be slowly surreal and very frightening. It provides an excessive framework for understanding a way to understand what we feel and why.
Harfoush created her video, “To reassure others that they are not alone” and that they “do not misunderstand the situation or imagine things.” She says that understanding overwhelming “made me feel less isolated.” ))
The designation of the experiment can be a form of psychological relief. “The worst thing in the world is to feel that you are the only person who feels this way and that you feel crazy quietly and that everyone is in a state “This frightens people. It affects people.”
Heckman says that people who feel a “mistake” sharply the current conditions may suffer from some depression and anxiety, but these feelings can be very rational – and not symptoms of mental health, alert or a lack of an appropriate perspective.
She says: “What we really fear is that the people in power did not get our back and that they do not give disgust about whether we are alive or not.”
Mariel Gregory, 32, a retail worker based in New York City, Publish Daily life feels “illogical” in the face of the political crisis. Gregwski says that the result of the 2024 elections I mentioned that she lives in a “bubble” of progressive values, and that “there is the other half of people who do not feel the same energy, frustration and fear.”
For Gregski, US failures are not only partisan, but ethical – like Racism and intolerance Trump’s second state was removed from the shadows In politics.
Greguski is currently planning a wedding. She says it is difficult to divide “continuous cruelty, things that are meaningless.” “Sometimes I will be like:” I must put aside x an amount of money for the wedding next year, and then I am like: “Will this country be as we know next year?” It is really crazy. “
Effects of vertical hyper
The confrontation of the peripheral collapse can be very linked, overwhelming and even humiliating, to the extent that many people raise or find themselves in a state of freezing.
Greguski resembles this feeling of paralysis: “Basically a awake nightmare where she loves:” I am here, I am aware, but I am very afraid and I cannot move. “
In his book in 1955, they believed that they were free: the Germans, 1933-1945, journalist Milton Mayer described a similar freezing state in German citizens during the rise of the Nazi party: “You do not want to act, or even speak, on your own; you do not want to” go out on your way. “Why not?
“People do not close because they do not feel anything,” he says. “They were closed because they feel a lot.” Understanding this exhaustion is an important first step in resisting failure to work – it helps us see fear as a trap.
Cortis notes that governments may keep their citizens intentionally in a state of risk and confusion as a “great way to manage a very fever and anxiety.”
When we are unable to face the biggest problems, “we turn to the only thing we have power, to try to change for the better,” says Cortis – that means, usually, ourselves. Anxiety and fear can send us, which leads us to spend more time trying to feel better in small and personal ways, such as entertainment and self -care, and a less time in activity and community participation.
How to overcome
Progressive commentators called for ethical clarity and packing in response to changes such as discounts in financing the United States Agency for International Development, which led 103 deaths per hour Throughout the world, no Dismantling the Center for Disease Control; Robert Kennedy Campaign against vaccine science.
“Where is the anger?” Ask Gregg Gonsalvest. “A lot of lives at stake to rest at this strange moment of frozen incitement.”
“I don’t know if there is a tremendous transformation towards racism as much as the indifferent indifference to it,” historian Robin DJ Kelly He said In an interview in February with New York magazine. People are just a kind like: “Well, what can we do? “
Experts say the work can break the talisman. “Be a political active, in any way, I think America’s syndromeWhich explores the importance of resisting horrific thinking.
Greguski and his colleagues help distribute multi -language information about legal rights and auxiliary line numbers, for use in the case of ice raids.
“It is easy to feel:” Oh, I am in society because I am on Tiktok, “she says.
“You are actually talking to people, working with people and realizing that there are many good people in the world as well, and you may feel less isolated than before,” says Hartmann.
“But I also think we need a wider view,” Hartmann notes. It proposes to search for resistance efforts against tyranny in countries such as Türkiye, Hungary and India. How can we be in international solidarity?
“We are now very necessary to protest,” says Hartman, citing Harvard Irika Cenoyeth. 3.5 % From the residents who participate in a peaceful protest can prevent authoritarian movements.
What makes the defect very dangerous is that we may simply learn to live with him. But understanding excessive capitals gives us the language – and permission – to recognize when the regimes fail, and clarifies the risk of not taking action when we can.
In 2014, Ursula Le Guyne accepted the National Books Corporation for the distinguished contribution to American messages, saying: “We live in capitalism. Its power appears to be inevitable.
Harvosh is often reflected in this quote. It emphasizes the fact that “this world that we created is ultimately an option.” “It shouldn’t be like this.”
We have research, techniques and wisdom to create better and more sustainable systems.
“But the change is meaningful, it requires collective awakening and decisive work,” says Harvosh. “We need to start now.”
