very tired and demoralized at work so heres something ive been thinking about an interesting thing that may have happened in the 20th century is that deliberately or not people got really good at wrecking norms
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it seems like you break a norm by having an individual violate it in a very public manner as a way of testing the strength of a consensus--that is, you force enforcers of the norm to make good on threats against violations, or show that they no longer can, because . . .
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. . . a public demonstration of a willingness to violate the norm gives people who privately disagreed with it to publicly oppose it, and if enough do this then you get a preference cascade away from the old equilibrium that quietly rotted away.
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