Normalization
Normalization names how procedural delay, queue waits, and administrative distance become background hum rather than alarm. In Before Certainty Arrives and Living in Sediment-adjacent dynamics, what once required explanation becomes what institutions expect people to endure. It becomes important when thinning fit hides behind functioning machinery. It helps recognize saturation before rupture, but can fail when ordinary continuity is mistaken for health. It differs from drift because normalization is drift absorbed into baseline expectation; drift is the ongoing movement away from original conditions.
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