“Proper” mashed potatoes with butter are an obviously superior dish to microwaved instant mash with margarine, but over a lifetime someone can move from the former to the latter in steps small enough to barely notice.
Isn’t this also known as “normalization of deviance”? At each step, the results are “close enough” or “good enough”, and without someone stepping back occasionally and looking back at the original standard, the results can diverge arbitrarily from what is intended.
Isn’t this also known as “normalization of deviance”? At each step, the results are “close enough” or “good enough”, and without someone stepping back occasionally and looking back at the original standard, the results can diverge arbitrarily from what is intended.