01 - Complacency

In everyday English, complacency is a quiet satisfaction with how things are — enough

that you stop paying attention, stop striving, stop being alert. It's not laziness exactly. It's

often dressed up as comfort. It's the feeling of "I've got this handled" that makes you

stop checking.

That's exactly why the MSG translation is so jarring: "complacency is murder."

Complacency doesn't feel dangerous. It feels like rest. But Wisdom calls it lethal.