The insensitivity of gradualism

The insensitivity of humans to the gradual changes explains why today we are incomprehensibly bad.

Denomínase parable to the "Narrative of a fake event, from which it appears, by comparison or similarity, an important truth or a moral teaching."

It is well known the parable of the frog and the hot water. It is one of the newer stories. You may not have more than two centuries. Some believe that it occurred to an expert consultant in selling their great fallacies to thrive in less than 24 hours.

The content summary says that if you put a frog in cold water, we boil whenever the temperature rise is gradual.

Another feature of the parables is that for those who listen, a frog and a human being are equal.

In response to this disability to discriminate very different beings, we get the teaching that humans can be boiled without always oppose the change, temperature or situation, progressive, slow, soft landing alarming.

To all our attention what is happening in China, not least because one in five human beings born there.

Although it has to be this way, it is likely that the ancient culture has provided some wisdom.

The truth is that the quality of life they been increasing steadily for more than 30 years.

For people to not cause a social explosion by severe hardships to which they were exposed to the seventies, the ruling communist party the people struggle to improve noticeably, as if gradually improve would not notice, like the frog.

This peculiarity of the frogs, humans and Chinese explains why we, without realizing it, we become so bad.

Note: Original in Spanish (without translation by Google): La insensibilidad del gradualismo.

 

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