Canary in the mine
No matter how many times I hear it, I still won't pay attention to it. I promise myself to keep an eye on it, to heed the warning, to consider the evidence for it. But I simply won't remember. I will forget and I will err. Not on the side of caution, but in spite of early awareness and in open defiance of all caveats. Against caution.
Seneca expressed a …