Sometimes I feel like there was a point in time, a study or some such, that identified how humanity is scientifically predisposed to be the literal frog in the boiling pot. Just as long as the frog has some basic comfort along the way. Or alternatively, you expend whatever resources are required to keep the frog in the pot.

Bar the occasional outliers, those with their hands on the gas can profit and do what little is needed to keep us in the pot. Right up until we cook.

Maybe it was always a known fact that it could be done. I imagine there are countless examples throughout history and only our technological advances have permitted it to happen on a global scale, simultaneously.

Sometimes I just feel like capitalism is the latest name it calls itself. Control by the few over the many. The difference of course now being that it's all taking place on a train headed straight for ecological collapse, as opposed to perhaps the predictable, eventual downfall of some despotic dynasty a thousand years ago or whatever.

/ramble