Paul

“It's the old story about incremental changes,” he said. When her confusion didn't clear, he continued. “If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out,” he said. “But if you put it in a pot of cold water and slowly heat it, it will eventually boil to death, not having noticed the incremental temperature changes. It's supposed to represent things like how a dictator might slowly make things worse in a country, bit by bit so no-one really registers a major change because they don't look at where they started and where they ended, they just compare one day to the next over and over.”
― Tom Larcombe, System Return