The Empire Strikes Back — Article IV
The Empire Strikes Back — Article IV
Normalization, exhaustion, and the slow rewriting of what citizens accept as ordinary.
The fourth essay in the series examines how power becomes ordinary — how institutions normalize what once seemed unthinkable until it disappears into the background of daily political life.
This page is the canonical home for the essay on ProfHakawati.com. A short summary appears here while the complete text is prepared for on-site publication.
Originally published on Substack.