voter fatigue · worn
Ask PrometheusMembers of a collective self reading each new choice of who governs as asking more than it gives, so the more often it comes, the less they act.
Voter fatigue (noun) means: Members of a collective self reading each new choice of who governs as asking more than it gives, so the more often it comes, the less they act. It emerges from collective self, member, read, new: Each election asks for attention and action; repeated close together, members read the cost as rising and the reach it gives as falling, and turnout falls with that read. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- Israel held five general elections between April 2019 and November 2022, and voter fatigue was widely discussed in coverage of the later ones. politics
Emergence
through: Each election asks for attention and action; repeated close together, members read the cost as rising and the reach it gives as falling, and turnout falls with that read.
- consent that thins with repetition
- a reach unused because it is offered too often
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (445 steps)
- voter fatigueL18
- collective selfL15
- self-modelL14
- memberL7
- groupsL5
- modelL9
- keepL5
- acrossL13
- readL7
- subjectL5
- memberL7
- readL7
- newL4
- choiceL9
- governmentL17
- asksL7
- giveL7
- oftenL2
- comeL3
- actL3
- collective selfL15
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | outrage-of-the-week.serial | both are wear from repetition; voter fatigue wears out acting, outrage of the week wears out keeping |
| contrasts-with | learned-helplessness.under | learned helplessness reads reach as nothing; voter fatigue reads it as not worth the cost |