The Pathology of Indifference.

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
                                                                                    -Elie Wiesel.


I call it, the pathology of indifference. In the society I live in, it's more like a thriving epidemic.
I, for one, do not understand it. We live in a world of more than 7 billion people. 7 billion lives. To be indifferent to someone's situation halfway around the world, in a depraved sense, is still more understandable than being indifferent to what's happening in our own home, in our city, in our country.


Do people use it as a shield of some sort? As if, if they are apathetic and oblivious to what's happening around them, they will somehow be protected from all the bad stuff? Protected from ugly travesties, wars, genocide, or let's just break it down to simpler proportions, unkindness? If that is their justification, it is one of the most unreliable, self-serving defense mechanisms existing in the thresh-hold of society today.

To be in a situation of powerlessness to drive change, is a better place to be in than to be in a situation where you don't know what to, how to, why to change. To be in a situation where you ideally should speak up, but don't. Simply, because you don't care enough. This is not about the absence of a conscience(a vague term in itself), or about a idealistic epiphany to actually unite the peoples of the world.
I just believe that apathy is much more dangerous than battle. Because it is virile, it is convenient, and hydra-like, it grows without reason.


To be indifferent is to be heartless.
To be indifferent is to be alone.
To be indifferent, in more ways than one, is to not be alive at all.



^^This is what listening to too much Pearl Jam does to me! :P
      "I will hold the candle, till it burns up my arm
      I'll keep takin' punches, until their will grows tired
      Oh I will stare the sun down, until my eyes go blind
      Hey I won't change direction, and I won't change my mind
      How much difference does it make."

Till we meet again, care. :)