From Inquiry PG. 208 # 1 (drafting introductions)

Diamond’s concept of ‘creeping normalcy’ and Landscape Amnesia both tie into Gladwell’s theory of a tipping point. Diamond’s theory of ‘creeping normalcy’ is when something slowly becomes normal in a region over time, due to slow change. While his landscape amnesia theory is about when an area that is inhabited by or frequently visited by people changes slowly over time and the changes that have occurred go unnoticed by the frequent visitors or locals of that region. Lastly, Gladwell’s ideal of a tipping the reasoning behind the start of a phenomenon, or a trend. Gladwell uses the example that trends spread like viruses and the rise of the trend is to be considered the tipping point; the time in which the fad or phenomenon became popular or even dominating. Gladwell’s example that are used in the excerpt about possibilities on why some societies make the disastrous decisions that they do even though they may be potentially hurting themselves and making it harder to live in the long run, tie into Diamond’s main points that are stressed throughout his article titled “Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference.”

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