By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com
One evening, while in college, I attended an extracurricular lecture held by my college adviser on nuclear proliferation. It was a concern that was close to his heart and I admired his “doing something about it” at the time.
During his talk, he shared the parable of “the frog in boiling water” and it was the first time I had heard it told.
Essentially, it boiled (pun intended) down to this:
If you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will immediately jump out to save its life. However, if you place the frog into a pot of room temperature water and slowly heat it to a boil, the frog will gradually boil to death.
The lesson from the story?
For me, it was this:
Inattention and complacency kills; gradually by degree at first, and then all once.
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