According to contemporary biologists the story is not literally true; a frog submerged and gradually heated will jump out.

German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but his intact frogs attempted to escape the water.
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There you have it. Frogs are sensible, the result of 100 million years of evolution. But, current elites are more like a frog with its brain removed.

The average American voter has two options: Either spend SIX times as much as the average world citizen and have enough to build his own safety net, or have other Americans pay for his safety net (which BTW has a tendency to become a permanent crutch) and use all his income to live a life EIGHT times as prosperous as the average world citizen. He is obviously choosing the latter and the one to two percent annual growth trendlines to decline that go with such flatter effort-reward curves.

Shows you where the real greed is. The greed of “just a little bit more unearned income, so I can rise from the top 10% of wealth worldwide up to the top 8%”. Alas, the flatter effort reward curves you will create will take you down to a worldwide 20%, 30%, 50%. And that will feel very different indeed – especially since, as leftists know too well, it is often relative prosperity we judge things by.

But I’m sure that the hundred or so billion in class warfare money that we will raise from the rich, I.e three hundred dollars per American, will satisfy the welfare and redistributive aspirations of HopNChange faithfuls. What will the monster eat when the appetizers are gone? It will inevitably eat the very same people that raised him. It will keep forming fluid and switching majorities with the skinniest of peasants to eat a minority until everyone – or at least their money in the allegory – is gone.

Not to worry though, American DNA will keep working and out competing the rest of the world under flatter effort reward curves. And besides God is on America’s side. What can go wrong? American success is preordained even if Americans adopt the same class warfare mentality that is norm in most of the rest of the world. So lets CHange. I HOpe it works!

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I just don’t see how in the coming years of ever more evident decline (though it will not be constant, there will be short outbursts of new hope, otherwise the frog jumps out, if the trend is consistently worse) Americans could possibly not only reverse all the HopNChange they so enthusiastically ramped up to all these years, but also all the statism that Bush brought. I just dont see it happening. As decline takes hold, I see people redoubling on huddling together, willing and not, which will only mean intensifying erosion of the once legendary American motivation. If American culture converges to the average mentality and effort-reward curves of safety nets paid by others, American prosperity will inevitably follow suit. Sooner rather than later.