In the US we are now living in a Soviet era period of hypernormalisation, which “captures this juxtaposition of the dysfunctional and mundane”. Hypernormalisation describes life in a society where two main things are occurring.
“The first is people seeing that governing systems and institutions are broken. And the second is that, for reasons including a lack of effective leadership and an inability to imagine how to disrupt the status quo, people carry on with their lives as normal despite systemic dysfunction – give or take a heavy load of fear, dread, denial and dissociation.”
In other words, “this is fine”, while fire burns everything down meme.