Reference · Book 2, Carl's Doomsday Scenario
The boiling frog
The (false) folk fable that a frog dropped in boiling water jumps out but one warmed slowly boils to death; Carl's metaphor on live intergalactic television for why the Skull Empire's subjects should rise, which he privately calls naïve and which gets a production trailer pulsed from orbit within two minutes.
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The speech (ch. 19); Carl's own verdict — naïve, a nice fantasy (ch. 20).