the.com/discourse shifts
when the goalposts move and everyone pretends they were always there.
means a change in how a topic is publicly framed or talked about, often signaling a change in underlying power or consensus.
from rooted in foucault's idea that language and knowledge are inseparable from power — whoever controls the discourse controls what counts as truth, so when the discourse moves, reality quietly follows.
academic rootfoucault popularized discourse as power in the 1970s
speed todaysocial media compresses decade-long shifts into weeks
tellyesterday's fringe opinion becomes today's default headline
dangernobody announces the shift, they just act like it happened