THis One's Actually from Emma WS

What I find to be the scariest thing about all terrible regimes and great injustices is not the new laws and obvious problems with the system, but the fact that no matter how awful the new ways of life are, everyone becomes used to it. If people live a reality for long enough that becomes the only reality. “Whatever is going on is usual.” Offred realizes. “Even this is as usual, now.” The worst part about the bad becoming normal is that it means no one will resist it. If women are used to being lesser people, no one will out up a fight when it is decided that all fertile women are to become possessions of the powerful men, and from there, things would only continue downward. “in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.” As Aunt Lydia puts it, “Normal is whatever you are used to. Even this will become normal to you.” (Or something like that, I couldn’t find the quote.) She is, unfortunately, right. Offred is astonished when seeing what used to be normal to her, the skirts of the Japanese tourists, even being greeted with the ‘old’ greeting, “hello”. That is how the Republic can win, by making its people forget that there ever was anything else.