Author: michaeldarmody

There is an old adage about the boiling frog, which claimed that if you dropped a frog into a pot of boiling water, it would immediately jump out. But if you placed it in cool water and gradually raised the temperature to a boil, the frog would slowly cook without realizing it. True or not, the adage does describe well how we have arrived at this critical juncture, and how crucial it is that we … we jump out of the water. The ‘boiling frog’ is a metaphor for a society that has been lulled to sleep while perilous forces…