On Boiling Frogs Alive

There is an old saw that claims;

If you throw a frog into a pan of boiling water
s/he will react quickly, and jump out of the water
essentially unharmed.

However, if you put a frog in a pan of cold water
and slowly raise the heat to boiling
s/he will boil to death.

If the leadership of the APS, or the City Council,
or the State Legislature, announced one day
that they were simply going to start ignoring stakeholders,
except themselves from accountability, and go hang out
together in apartments in the sky;

stakeholders would react.

On the other hand, if the squandering of the public trust
and treasure were deliberate, methodical and incremental,

stakeholders would do nothing.


And if you can keep stakeholders ignorant of their plight,
with a multi million dollar communications effort,
so much the better.