Escalatory Grievance Cycles

Definition

Moral fragility pattern where grievance authority must expand in scope or intensity to maintain its salience and institutional justification. Produces polarisation rather than correction as authority becomes dependent on continuous grievance inflation.

Formula

Example

An advocacy organisation interprets declining public support as proof that grievance has not been taken seriously enough—prompting expansion that further accelerates legitimacy decay.

Source

LGIT-MFC Section 4.2