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 By Selwyn Duke
The New American
September 21, 2026

“Inurement” is one of those lesser-known but interesting words. It references the process of accustoming people to a thing, generally something unpleasant. And what’s scary for many to contemplate — freedom lovers particularly — is that man can become inured to most anything. This includes tyranny.

An ideal example was provided by a 1997 New York Times Magazine article on slavery in Muslim Mauritania. “God created me to be a slave, just as he created a camel to be a camel,” said a woman identified as Fatma. She’d been inured.

An activist named Boubacar Ould Messaoud, himself born a slave, expounded further. People such as his mother “think that there is nothing wrong with slavery,” he told the Times. “They have no other universe. After 15 or 20 generations, people become totally submissive.” Rebellion becomes, the paper added, “inconceivable among people who have lost their collective memory of freedom.”

This is a cautionary tale because, while Americans aren’t slaves in any literal sense, they’ve become inured, too. So warns commentator Mark C. Ross, who lamented Wednesday, “Sometimes I feel like a frog that’s getting boiled.”.........more.............