Apathetic People

    I am utterly dismayed at individuals who happily accept the shackles of servitude being placed upon their wrists and ankles by our federal government. At first glance these people appear to just be going with the flow. Much like a leaf floating on the ocean, being taken to and fro by the winds and currents. These individuals make little or no protest of the loss of their liberty and seem oblivious to political changes around them.

    I have always voiced my discontent when it was apparent that my rights were being violated or taken away.  So, these persons that seem to not care, posed a perplexing problem for me.  I could not fathom how an individual could so casually allow his/her freedoms to be usurped without even offering up the faintest protest.  The more I talked with people of this nature, the more I was drawn to study them.  I had to understand what made or would cause an individual to just blindly accept the terms being forced upon them by an oppressive malevolent entity.  I had to know..... WHY?

    My study of this type of person has lead me to understand there are two basic sub-groups;  those that truly want to be told when, where, and how to live their lives and those who are just utterly apathetic.  The bulk of individuals fall into the apathetic grouping.  These individuals are so wrapped up in their own microcosm, that they have become indifferent to the happenings outside of their immediate surroundings.

     While talking with these apathetic people, they appear to be engaged and genuinely interested in the conversation as long as it is about a topic that falls within their finite parameters that define their world.  If the conversation were to move towards a topic such as the political changes taking place with our government, they immediately become detached and retreat back into their own personal microcosm.   Their actions are not much different than the ostrich that buries it's head into the sand at the sight of a predator.

   It appears that the very discussion of events that change the rules that might impact their personal world is such a frightful experience that they can not mentally handle or adapt.  So, they become apathetic as form of mental self-preservation. 

   This truly is a troubling issue for the rest of the population, because these people are making up a larger percentage of the population each and every generation. As their numbers grow so does the easy in which our freedoms can be stripped from us. It appears though that when these individuals are forced to face the stark reality of the facts either by being forced to acknowledge or by brutal oppression, they become engaged and proactive.  The big question is ...How long before they will succumb and revert back into their apathetic ways?


Sic Semper Tyrannis!!!