Things are bad. And they are getting worse by the hour. The most powerful person in the world and the intelligent people behind him are brewing a new Reichstag Fire. Institutions that were supposed to keep people safe are now creating unsafe and violent conditions. Agencies meant to ensure the rule of law and due process will now have break both national and international law to meet the boss’ daily quotas. Loyalty to the Constitution has been replaced by loyalty to the Leader. Everything is escalating. The temperature is rising. The steam fog is forming.
And in that fog, we will get confused with our own little moral compasses we each carry.
But those little moral compasses have been a bit off for a while now. By gradual exposure, the needle has been subject to new magnetic forces. The compass normalized every new pull. It started to point to a new north. And with a new direction, we carried on with our lives. We looked away. We thought it would never happen to us.
Navigating life with broken compasses, we behaved very much like the frog being slowly boiled alive, never noticing that the circumstances were changing, and by adapting, we also changed.
There is a problem with the frog analogy, though. In defense of frogs, they do actually jump.