scandalnesia
/ˌskændəlˈniːziə/nounVerified NewThe public's rapid, collective forgetting of scandals and outrages once the cycle moves on.
Affairs that dominated a week are unremembered within a season. The forgetting is not forgiveness — nobody decided anything — it is capacity; apologies are issued to an audience that will not retain them.
Etym. — scandal + -nesia, on the amnesia family: memory loss at population scale.
Rel. — outragelull
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