Emergency measures become permanent once crisis is normalized.

Evidence

What is unique about the dystopia in Children of Men is that it is specific to late capitalism. This isn’t the familiar totalitarian scenario routinely trotted out in cinematic dystopias (see, for example, James McTeigue’s 2005 V for Vendetta). … For all that we know, the authoritarian measures that are everywhere in place could have been implemented within a political structure that remains, notionally, democratic. The War on Terror has prepared us for such a development: the normalization of crisis produces a situation in which the repealing of measures brought in to deal with an emergency becomes unimaginable (when will the war be over?) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 7

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the War on Terror literature already read (The New Crusades, Islamophobia books) on permanent emergency. — connects to: Emergency-powers measures become unrepealable once crisis is normalised — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 559; Crisis normalization makes the repeal of emergency measures unimaginable — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 7; Democratic states govern through a permanent state of exception rather than true crisis — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race…, 363

Broader Connections

• Emergency-powers measures become unrepealable once crisis is normalised #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 559
• Crisis normalization makes the repeal of emergency measures unimaginable #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 7
• Democratic states govern through a permanent state of exception rather than true crisis #qualifies (0.72) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 363