The Empires Strike Back · Article IV · April 2026

The Empires Strike 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.

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