Nov
20
This is Interesting – The Overton Window
ByIn case you missed this segment of Glenn Beck’s show – watch it. It’s very interesting. Beck calls it the Overton Window. What was once radical is now accepted, and what was once the norm is now radical.
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I din’t know it had a name.
But I wrote (in internal company documents) 30 years ago about the problem.
The way I described it was that we needed an absolute end date for the project, beyond which we would not be funded for anymore changes. The problem was the client would ask for huge changes to the design and we would “compromise” by giving them some percentage of their demands.
Then they would immediately file a new change request for what ever had been denied in the compromise, plus some more stuff they had been saving.
Rinse.
Lather.
Repeat.
I saw the show as well and I’ve called it creepage or incrementalism and it has really moved the window in our culture from 30 to 40 years ago. This either stems from just plain laziness for some issues; to complete disregard of core principals to get your way at any cost and justify it. The left are masters of this by saying “it doesn’t matter”, or “for this time only”. Try raising kids like that and see what happens, or just look around most college campuses.