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Boiling frog syndrome

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Magical Realist Offline
That's what I call it. Like how you can gradually heat up a frog in a pot of water without the frog knowing it is eventually boiling to death. It's this tendency we all have to fall asleep in this massive deluge of overinformation that we live in. To go into autofilter mode. We get used to things being the same way, the status quo. Indeed, we object that this structure be dismantled at all, even if that structure is enslaving us in a mundane existence of mediocrity. How does one "wake up" to the fact that one is boiling to death? How does one raise one's consciousness out of the stupor of "everything is fine, keep shopping" that dominates our mass-produced clone-like existence? Is this an authentic mode of being---this deliberate revolt against a culture of complacent resignation to being predefined and stereotyped as mere pawns in a socio-economic power game? Or is it better to just sleepwalk along on autopilot without ever rocking the boat?

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