One of the ways people are tricked into accepting unfavorable realities is by what I call “the slow slide”.
The concept is also known as
mission creep
scope creep
feature creep
ratchet effect
slippery slope
incrementalism
You can look each of these words up to gain a deeper understanding of the topic.
It happens in public and your personal life. It can be used negatively or positively.
First, a few examples negative examples of this:
Amazon’s Slow Slide
At first Amazon said “if you want to watch shows for freed, subscribe to Amazon Prime”
Years later “Well, some shows now cost money, even though you’re already subscribe to Amazon Prime”.
Years later “If you want to watch shows on Amazon Prime ad free, subscribe to ad free”
Years later “Well, even though you’re subscribed to Amazon Prime and ad-free, we’re still going to show you some ads”.
Democrats and Republicans Slow Slide
The slow slide is how the Democrats went from 1960s peace 🕊️ , love ♥️and diversity 🌈 to 2020s forced vaccination 💉, mass child-castration 😭and supporting the mass-human trafficking of drug cartels💊.
The slow slide is how Republicans went from 1950s prosperity 💰, family 👩👩👦 and spirituality ⛪️to 2000s wars 🪖, big business corruption🫰and anger-politics 😡.
Initial Perception blocks Here-Now Perception
Yet because of slow-slide people barely notice and still support them, based on initial perception.
Initial perception often blocks here-now perception.
Examples:
A sports coach keeps letting player A play, because of past successes, even though current performance is not near past levels.
A relationship is continued based on past good times even though there haven’t been any good times for a year.
Using positive Incrementalism to Trick the subconscious
Incrementalism can be used positively, to trick your subconscious. The subconscious is adverse to rapid and radical change. Sometimes you can pull it off, but often people revert back to old habits or the pendulum swings back in the opposite direction some time later.
To avoid the subconscious backlash, it can be trained to accept a new beneficial reality slowly and incrementally. In my experience things grown slowly, like plants, humans and all else in the Universe, tend to last and last and last. The negative opposite is “one hit wonder”.
Small improvements every day is often more effective than quick and massive change to the better.
Much more could be said about this, but you’re smart enough to extrapolate and see how “slow slide” is used in society to mask changes that people would not accept if it were to happen all at once.
