When Invasion Feels Normal: How We Learned to Shrug

This week, the U.S. abducted the leader of another nation.

Ten years ago, that would have been an all-hands national crisis.

This time? Most of us shrugged and kept scrolling.

That reaction is the story.

In Episode 1 of Season 2, we break down how repeated norm-breaking rewires a population: habituation, emotional numbing, collective dissociation, and the quiet moment when “unthinkable” becomes “Tuesday.” Not a political argument. A psychological autopsy.

This isn’t about whether Nicolás Maduro is a villain. It’s about what happens when your nervous system adapts faster than your values do, and how that sets the stage for the next escalation.

If you’ve felt numb, detached, or weirdly unfazed by things that should alarm you, listen. This is the mechanism.