The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: Plato
Apathy: A lack of interest or feeling; indifference ~ Oxford American Dictionary.
Comfortable in their denial, comfort, indifference and apathy, Americans do not realize that their house has been robbed, their social security has been stolen, their money devalued, their character degraded and their freedom dramatically curtailed and now its almost too late to do anything about it ~ for the price of apathy is fascism and America is already beyond the tipping point.
Our national apathy has allowed the government to be ruled by evil men ( Dick Cheney and George W Bush ) who have leaped into the vacuum produced by our indifference, dismantled the constitution and stolen the Republic ~ replacing it with their own war, occupation and neocon global agenda .
And now they have the audacity to blame their pseudo Malaiki led Iraqi government, which was set up for the purpose of stealing Iraq's oil, for the quagmire and killing fields that Iraq has become ~ while the spineless Democrats join the pathetic chorus oblivious of their increasingly shared responsibility for this growing American testament of shame and ineptitude.
Joseph Fort Newman, Atlantic Monthly, wrote about this possibility in October 1922 ~ and its well worth repeating now in August 2007.
" What is the great Amercican sin? Extravagance? Vice? Graft? No; it is a kind of half-humorous, good-natured indifference, a lack of "concentrated indignation" as my English friend calls it, which allows extravagance and vice to flourish. Trace most of our ills to their source, and it is found that they exist by virtue of an easy-going, fatalistic indifference which dislikes to have its comfort disturbed....The most shameless greed, the most sickening industrial atrocities, the most appalling public scandals are exposed, but a half-cynical and wholly indifferent public passes them by with hardly a shrug of the shoulders; and they are lost in the medley of events. This is the great American sin."
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/08/27.html
Freelance columnist Allen L Roland is available for comments , interviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )
