Apathy

If we were to think the biggest problems our country faces today are drugs, terrorism, the war, the economy, health care, social security, illegal immigrants, etc., we would be wrong. All of those and more are certainly important and daunting problems but our single biggest problem in this country today is apathy.

All the afore mentioned problems thrive on our apathy as a super nutrient. And thrive they do, to the point that very few have failed to grow to a size so monstrous as to be uncontrollable. We refuse to learn from pointed lessons. Worse, we do not care. Apathy has become a way of life for the vast majority.

We let a vocal few dictate to the masses. They have stripped us of our right to freedom of religion along with our freedom of speech, and we do not care. We allow our government to spend trillions on a drug war policy that prohibition should have taught us will not work and we do not care. We allow our government to “aid and abet” our enemies and diplomatically chase problems until the “problems” grow larger than the solution...and we do not care.

We allow the news media to force-feed us biased/slanted; half-truth news and we do not care. We allow insurance and health care fraud to push us toward bankruptcy, and we do not care. We allow our politicians to become gluttonous and ineffective and we do not care. We allow our children to be corrupted by prime time programming, the ‘new wave’ cartoons, gross behavior in advertising...and we do not care.

Vulgar, antisocial slogans on our clothing are acceptable, prayer in a public place is not, and we do not care. Those that take a stand may be admired but from afar for we are afraid but, we really...do not care.

Apathy is a viral malignant cancer to our way of life, and we simply do not care. One day we will, but it will be much too late.