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1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 11:35:12 EDT GeniusMusing
   @simsa04
   >It is striking that they were capable to detect (and reject) fascism in Trump's USA but not in Putin's Russia.
   
   This is why.
   
   Boiling frog Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
   
   >The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of sinister threats that arise gradually rather than suddenly.
   
   One came into the scene quickly (trump at full boil) while the other has been in office since 2012 and slowly the "heat" has been turned up to a boil over a decade.
   1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 11:39:49 EDT GeniusMusing

      in reply to
      @simsa04
      While not directly related to vision, this also applies.
      
      Change blindness Wikipedia
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness
      
      >Change blindness is a perceptual phenomenon that occurs when a change in a visual stimulus is introduced and the observer does not notice it. For example, observers often fail to notice major differences introduced into an image while it flickers off and on again.[1] People's poor ability to detect changes has been argued to reflect fundamental limitations of human attention.