Current day America has proven beyond a doubt, humanity is the only animal that wouldn't jump out of a slowly boiling pot of water.

Thinking about slow-moving effects, I have a theory that exposure to fiction is one reason people feel inadequate and depressed. For most of human history our idea of what it meant to be normal came from real people around us. We didn't know any fictional characters except for a handful of stories told around the fire. After radio was invented we got to know a lot more fictional characters, a lot faster and more intimately than we get to know most real people. Then television made it more vivid because we could see them. We think of many of these unreal people as our friends. Some of them have more impact on us than real people do. It's a lot easier to feel boring and inadequate than it was when we didn't feel like we knew people whose lives are so much more dramatic and interesting than ours. I think this is a large part of why it feels like failure to have an unremarkable job or date average people. It's a very slow-moving social change nobody would have seen coming.

Lobsters

ok. ok. ok. this is a bit of a stretch. I mean its really not all that slow.

It's still not warm enough for population over a tipping point, you are just more aware of the boiling apparatus. I believe humanity will jump once it gets warm enough, much like a frog does, even in a slowly boiling pot of water. I trust humanity, after all we've survived so far, our ancestors overcoming much much worse. Can you imagine living in feudalism? Or sword fighting in medieval times? Or when we had to hunt?

“The guy trying to help me out of a pot is a different type of left than me, so i don’t want his help, and that other guy below me is also a different type of left so fuck him. Anyone who is slightly right or left of me is a fascist and I’m gonna enjoy watching them boil”

-the American left in 2024

Its such a shit situation. If you want out, you generally need to get a job in another country. A job in a different country generally pays significantly less than the cost of living in most of the USA, so you need to already have a significant amount of money already saved to even consider it an option.

Most of us are just fucking trapped.

Well, duh. A slowly boiling pot of water is just a fucking hot tub for 90% of the time you're in it.

Called my mom last night, told her to renew her passport asap.

Most people are like “the waters warm, this is nice, what are you going on about???” And I’m like “hi yes this water is scalding hot and about to boil we need to get out!”

Billionaires are keeping us in the pot, using levers of power that we don't access from the pot.

Also the only animal whose greed and hoarding behavior outdoes it's conspecific altruism.

Don't forget the millions of us chained to the bottom because we have no choice

As an American who just emigrated, I guess I jumped. I can still vote from overseas, but I'm pessimistic about the future.

Inside the pot: slowly boiling water

Outside the pot: raging inferno that is heating the pot

When given the option to slowly boil, or jump into a raging inferno, I think most people would think twice about jumping out of the pot.

Yea.....

Post UK Brexit was when I thought the same thing.

This would imply that they're not surrounded by other pots filled with water which is (varying degrees of) boiling. We don't really have a Socialist Utopia meeting spot, let's say.

Beyond that, eloping requires a not insignificant amount of money (as a Romanian, I can say that homes/apartments aren't cheap here, either, and we're not exactly L.A.)

And at the other end of the line, immigration's not exactly thought of with fondness, even in Europe. Don't forget, we're stewing in our own pot even if the heat's still relatively tolerable.

jordan peterson has some knowledge about lobsters he'd like to share with you.

That's what the woke mob would have you believe! The water isn't getting warmer at all! Believe me!

i don't know US pedons being obideint dogs is anything new... look nazi germany and look at russia. same basic premises, daddy worshiping and oligarch bootlicking.

in other words, this is the human condition because normie needs to feelz good.

Isn't it for all animals. If you keep slowly increasing temperature their body temperature will more easily come to equilibrium with outside temperature than it will if you just put them to hot boiling pot?

Water? Preposterous!

A giant pot of delicious soon-to-be stew, however... mighty tempting, doc! You'll have to treat me right though, you wouldn't want to get food poisoning from stringy meat would ya?

People from all over the world are trying to get into this boiling pot. Despite America's flaws, very few places are better alternatives when you look at economic opportunity and political rights. It is popular to trash on America now because who is president for the next four years but there's also only so many things he can do with an executive order and Congress isn't a fast moving engine.

USA != America