A process by which a major change can be accepted as normal and acceptable if it happens gradually through small, often unnoticeable, increments of change.

The change could otherwise be regarded as remarkable and objectionable if it took hold suddenly or in a short time span.

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Metaphors related to creeping normality:

Boiling frog
Camel's nose
Lingchi
"First they came ..."
Habituation
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Moving the goalposts
Normalisation of deviance
Overton window
Principiis obsta (et respice finem) - 'resist the beginnings (and consider the end)'
Salami tactics
Shifting baseline
Slippery slope
Technological change as a social process
Tyranny of small decisions
Conformity
Peer pressure
Spiral of silence

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How to play "Grandma's Footsteps"

- 1 person is 'grandma' standing with their back to the rest. Everyone else starts trying to creep up on grandma, freezing when she turns around suddenly.

Or push prices up gradually and suddenly for food, rent, housing, inflation etc!

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