How do you think about danger?

Do you worry about it?

Do you think you could sense it when it was near upon you?

Or would you be oblivious to it?

Have you ever thought about what it might be like to be in a dangerous situation with

a group of people?

Strangers, how they would perceive the danger differently.

Some would have anxieties disproportionate to the threaded hand,

while others would be checked out,

and completely oblivious to the danger right in front of them.

There are sayings in our culture, in our society,

that seem to just roll off the tip of the tongue at the

right moment. Things like, hey, you got to be in it to win it. Or no guts, no glory. Some of them seem

to make no sense at all, especially the one about a frog in a pot

in the boiling water, being desensitized to it as the temperature rises to a fatal boiling level.

That was always a hard one to understand, particularly as a kid.

How could the frog not want to get out of the hot pot of water?

And of course, no one actually put a frog in a boiling pot of water to find out.

What is the meaning of that story?

Well, it's a warning. Donald Trump has been the dominant cultural figure in the United States since 2015. it is a remarkable thing. And the truth of the matter is,

it is not possible for somebody so toxic, so sick, so venal to be the dominant figure in a society

and not have it have dramatic implications,

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