Historically, nothing ever happens until suddenly everyone is caught off guard by a happening seemingly coming out of nowhere. IIRC, it's called something like normalcy bias.
Yeah, that's basically what I said with less cynicism. There's a general perception that nothing ever happens, and like you said that's just an illusion caused by normies not paying attention. Or sometimes it's from people not seeing the forest for the trees, but in any case history is full of people getting caught off guard.
I was talking about the belief that nothing ever happens, not the sudden happening that proves it wrong. But thanks, I didn't know the sudden happening also had a term for it.
Historically, nothing ever happens until suddenly everyone is caught off guard by a happening seemingly coming out of nowhere. IIRC, it's called something like normalcy bias.
Things happen all the time, the issue is that people don't really notice the trend.
Yeah, that's basically what I said with less cynicism. There's a general perception that nothing ever happens, and like you said that's just an illusion caused by normies not paying attention. Or sometimes it's from people not seeing the forest for the trees, but in any case history is full of people getting caught off guard.
It's called a preference cascade.
I was talking about the belief that nothing ever happens, not the sudden happening that proves it wrong. But thanks, I didn't know the sudden happening also had a term for it.