To persuade a group of people to accept and believe something that is not true or to prevent a group of people from figuring out something that is true using hype and propaganda.
The surreal state of late-stage communism in which semantic basis of consensus reality is absurdity.
Analogous to the hyperreal state of late-stage capitalism (postmodernism) in which subjective (individualistic) reality contra-referentializes into intersubjective (synthetic) reality.
Hypernormalization was an absurdist era of consensus reality that befell the Soviet Union in the early 90's.