Comment: It's just goddamn beyond everything.  
What's it mean? What's it leading to?

  You know, if you'd have told me 20 years ago.
I'd see children walking the streets of our Texas towns..with green hair, bones in their noses...

 I just flat-out
wouldn't have believed you.

 Signs and wonders.

 But I think once you quit hearing "sir"
and "ma'am," the rest is soon to foller.

  Oh, it's the tide.
- Yeah.

 It's the dismal tide.
It is not the one thing.

Not the one thing.

~ from world weary Sheriff  Ed Tom Bell ( Tommy Lee Jones ) in conversation with a fellow older lawman in "No Country For Old Men"

the funny thing about many people Black Swan is that they only use the frog in the slowly boiling pot analogy when it suits them...