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Thoughts swirl in my mind in the hours\u2014or minutes\u2014right before waking up. I don\u2019t really know the true relativity of time in dreams; what we think is an hour could be a second.
What mattered yesterday was the idea that ran through my head: how repeated news and recycled drama turn us into spectators without wonder.<\/em><\/p>\n

In a world where information flows at dizzying speed, the greatest danger is no longer lies, but habit<\/em>.
Repetition\u2014whether in publishing news of violations or in presenting scenes of violence and corruption in films and series\u2014reshapes a person\u2019s moral sensitivity without them noticing. Over time, something happens that we might call the erosion of moral astonishment<\/em>. What is unethical becomes part of the emotional background.<\/p>\n

Human beings, by nature, adapt. Continuous exposure to a pattern of behavior\u2014even if deviant\u2014makes it familiar, and with familiarity the intensity of rejection fades.<\/p>\n

The flood of crime reports, the constant magnification of scandals, the portrayal of corruption as \u201ccleverness\u201d or \u201cstreet-smartness,\u201d
and the repeated scenes of betrayal, violence, and manipulation in artistic works\u2014
all of these gradually create a kind of life-on-a-stage, where the public becomes a passive spectator\u2014more receiving than acting, more \u201cunderstanding\u201d than rejecting.<\/p>\n

Art by nature condenses reality and reshapes it. But at some point, it shifts from being a mirror of reality to a hammer that forms<\/em> reality.
When violent scenes are repeated across dozens of films, when the corrupt man becomes a popular hero, and when the swindler is portrayed as having \u201csocial intelligence,\u201d values begin to shift\u2014with no official announcement.<\/p>\n

Young minds start seeing what they watch as natural, or \u201cpart of the game,\u201d or \u201crealism,\u201d as though morality has become a luxury that can be abandoned in the name of \u201clife as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the psychological theory known as Normalization<\/strong>:
what is abnormal becomes familiar through continuous exposure.<\/p>\n

Studies show that the mind gradually becomes less responsive to moral shocks, reducing sensitivity to others\u2019 pain or injustice, and even justifying unethical behavior as \u201cinevitable\u201d or \u201clogical.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it\u2019s no longer surprising that some people accept things they once strongly rejected\u2014simply because they\u2019ve gotten used to seeing them on screens or reading about them daily.<\/p>\n

Media and drama influence slowly, without direct confrontation. The viewer doesn\u2019t feel he is receiving an \u201corder,\u201d but rather a context<\/em>\u2014and contexts are stronger than orders.<\/p>\n

When drama portrays evil as a lovable hero,
when betrayal is justified by \u201cpsychological pressure,\u201d
and when circumventing the law is shown as part of \u201creal life,\u201d
the audience eventually comes to see these actions as normal, not deviant choices.
Thus society shifts from guarding its values to consuming<\/em> their erosion.<\/p>\n

This is the most dangerous stage a society can reach: when the sense of wrongdoing disappears, the voice of conscience weakens, and the immoral becomes \u201cpart of the scenery,\u201d not even worth stopping at.<\/p>\n

In politics, by the same mechanism, the exception becomes the rule.
The making of habit isn\u2019t limited to art and media\u2014it\u2019s one of the most powerful tools political systems have used throughout history, locally and globally, to turn abnormal behaviors into \u201cnormal\u201d practices.<\/p>\n

In 1930s Germany, the catastrophe didn\u2019t begin with a world war, but with creating a sense of German racial superiority and their right to conquer others. Through continuous media messages demonizing Roma, opponents, and Jews, daily repetition made hatred \u201clogical,\u201d preparing society to accept crimes unimaginable only a few years earlier.<\/p>\n

In the United States after 9\/11, millions accepted restrictive laws like the Patriot Act because the media repeated hourly that security could only come at the cost of privacy. Over time, people no longer found it strange that their communications were monitored or freedoms curtailed\u2014habit made the violation of rights seem \u201cnormal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Israeli media narrative in Europe and the U.S. reversed roles: the perpetrator became the victim, and the victim was labeled a criminal.<\/p>\n

In many countries, the repeated presence of military figures in politics gradually transformed military involvement in governance from an \u201cexception\u201d to a \u201cnorm.\u201d Each coup, each intervention, each speech linking \u201csecurity\u201d to \u201cmilitary rule\u201d embedded the idea that the only alternative to strict authority is chaos\u2014killing any discussion about democracy before it even starts.<\/p>\n

The repeated portrayal of administrative corruption made citizens, year after year, see corruption rewarded with promotions or silence. The initial shock faded into indifference, and the question became \u201cSo what?\u201d instead of \u201cHow is this happening?\u201d This normalization is what allows corruption to become a stable structure, not an occasional incident.<\/p>\n

In some local contexts, security campaigns, arrests, and the silencing of voices are presented in the media as actions \u201cto protect the nation.\u201d With daily repetition of these messages, moral sensitivity weakens, and the lines blur between protecting the state and protecting the regime. Citizens then accept procedures they would have refused in different circumstances.<\/p>\n

How do we protect our awareness from erosion?<\/strong>
The solution is not to fight art or hide the news, but to teach critical thinking\u2014to see and understand without surrendering.<\/p>\n

The solution is to raise children and youth to ask:
Why is this happening? Is it morally right?<\/em>
To diversify sources of awareness so we\u2019re not prisoners of a single media pattern.<\/p>\n

Drama may depict evil\u2014but society\u2019s real role is to remain able to reject it.<\/p>\n

Thriving societies do not leave the shaping of their conscience to chance, nor allow repetition to dictate their values. They know that restoring moral sensitivity is not moral preaching but a battle of awareness that begins with a single question:<\/p>\n

Do I truly recognize that what I see is not normal?
Or have I simply\u2026 gotten used to it?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He played a very important political role when he defended, from the very first beginning of the revolution, the demonstrators' right to call for their demands. He called on the government to listen and respond to their demands. Consequently and due to Dr. Badrawi's popularity, Mubarak appointed him as the NDP Secretary General thus replacing the members of the Bureau of the Commission. During that time, Dr. Badrawi expressed his political opinion to Mubarak that he had to step down. He had to resign from the party after 5 days of his appointment on February 10 when he declared his political disagreement with the political leadership in dealing with the demonstrators who called for handing the power to the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, from the very first moment his stance was clear by rejecting a religion-based state which he considered as aiming to limit the Egyptians down to one trend. He considered deposed president Mohamed Morsi's decision to bring back the People's Assembly as a reinforcement of the US-supported dictatorship. He was among the first to denounce the incursion of Morsi's authority over the judicial authority, condemning the Brotherhood militias' blockade of the Supreme Constitutional Court. 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