Why we accept a bad world

It’s a feeling that’s becoming harder to ignore: a quiet, unsettling sense that the world is softening at the edges, its quality decaying right in front of us. We’ve grown accustomed to shrugging off headlines about political self-interest, accepting it as the unchangeable background noise of modern life. We fill our carts with vibrantly packaged food that we know is filled with chemicals, a trade-off for convenience we no longer even question. Meanwhile, our digital world, once a gateway to connection, now feeds on our anxiety, while our children navigate a landscape stripped of innocence, pressured to understand adult complexities before they’ve even had a childhood. It’s not just one thing breaking down—it’s a collective slide, a "Great Normalization" of decline that we are all being quietly trained to accept. This isn't just a series of bad luck; it's a pattern we need to have the courage to name and reject.