Nigel Farage is seen in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, NY, USA December 15, 2016. Pool/ABACA ABACA/Press Association. All rights reserved.Nothing is real. A lot of us feel that this is close to the truth right now, waking up each day hoping that it was all a dream. Brexit didn't happen. Trump didn't win. Two men of the people didn't have their picture taken in front of a dictator-esque golden door. But each morning you wake up and realise it is all real, that the world has turned upside down.
The worse thing is that these two events haven't even happened yet. Britain hasn't lost access to the biggest market in the world, it hasn't shut its borders to millions of people it used to consider friends, it hasn't brought back imperial measurements. And Trump hasn't torn up the Paris climate deal, he hasn't built a massive wall/fence.
But they will happen and I, for one, look forward to measuring everything in hands and yards again, just like the good old days. But why did they happen? These were things that seemed absurd when first suggested, but eventually caught the imagination of millions of people and were victorious. One idea, brilliantly shown by Adam Curtis in his film HyperNormalisation, is that nothing is real.
