When the extreme turns into reality...
Everyone who watches TV, listens to the radio, reads the news or takes part on social media has caught themselves thinking that an extreme idea presented by some politician, celebrity or influencer months ago, after some related events, won’t seem to be extreme at all as you previously thought.
Was this person a visionary? Or the facts presented by the media lately changed your concept of extreme?
This is a strategy called Overton Window: You present the audience an idea that you know it won’t be accepted at first, then you feed them with a lot of other absurdly extreme ideas, so that the first one won’t seem absurd at all when compared to the others. At this point, the audience tends to approve the first one with lesser resistance, as the frame that encompasses their opinions has been pushed in the direction desired by the proponent of the idea, by the possibility of having to live with extreme ones.
This is the topic of this song , released by Sabrina as her solo work. The question remains: “How free are we really to choose what is best, when the manipulation of the facts is so big to make you to take measures against yourself without even noticing?”
Lyrics
Sabrina Todt, Renato Angelo
The night is falling
the sky seems so clear
The stars and moon are watching
People dreaming without fear
Knowing how mankind reacts
the devious lauch an attack
All logic will fade
as night into day
The unthinkable is now real
So unreasonable, and unreal
The Overton window
is shifting away
your mind is changing
it’ll never be the same
The sun is rising
and the sky is grey
The wind is blowing this change
people still think the same
So watch out for what’s coming
even though your mind is numb
all logic seems vain
for those with no brains
So political also critical
Makes the devious attack no even hard
Having the knowledge of the human heart