Every scandal arrives with the demand that we pay attention. Before it can be fully understood or produce consequences, another replaces it. Over time, outrage does not disappear because people stop caring; it is depleted by repetition, overload and the persistent experience that nothing changes.
In this episode of UNFRAMED, I examine “manufactured fatigue.” The term does not suggest that crises are fake or directed from a single command centre. It describes how permanent urgency, accelerated news cycles and repeated failures of accountability produce collective exhaustion and how that exhaustion can become politically useful.
When the public stops expecting consequences, wrongdoing no longer has to be defended. It merely has to survive long enough to become familiar.
