You might consider the concept of "Normalization of Deviance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalizati

You might consider the concept of "Normalization of Deviance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance I agree people can get used to almost anything. We've all been living through a pandemic. Society made it through the black plague. But part of "functioning" through bad conditions is losing touch with the the possibility of something better.