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As we move through the world, we constantly weigh our conscience against what David Dark calls \"deferential fear\"--going along just to get along, especially in relation to our cultural, political, and religious conversations. Dark reveals our compromised reality: the host of hidden structures and tacit social arrangements that draw us away from ourselves and threaten to turn us slowly into what we decry in others.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Become What We Normalize\u003c\/i\u003ecounsels a creative, slow, and artful response to the economy of reaction, hurry, shaming, and fearmongering. 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