#apathy — Public Fediverse posts

"B-but I didn't even vote!?!? Why is this affecting ME???"

https://piefed.social/c/political_memes/p/2056506/b-but-i-didn-t-even-vote-why-is-this-affecting-me

https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."

https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."

https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."

https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."

https://theconversation.com/what-working-class-boys-need-to-succeed-at-school-respect-and-open-conversations-277912; https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/boyhood-studies/16/2/bhs160207.xml (abstract only). "There are entrenched gaps between working-class #boys & their peers in their levels of attainment at every stage of #education. Often, however, the #solutions for addressing this gap in attainment have roots in #assumptions & #stereotypes. These tend towards positioning working-class boys as somehow suffering from... #apathy, #laziness or a lack of #ambition... The #evidence does not back these stereotypes up."

Ah, a brave band of keyboard warriors has taken up the Sisyphean task of breathing life into #GTK2 with... highly visible apathy! 😆 No stars, no forks, but hey, at least it has a catchy name that's as memorable as a sneeze. 🤦‍♂️
https://git.devuan.org/Daemonratte/gtk2-ng #Revival #Apathy #KeyboardWarriors #OpenSource #Humor #TechCommunity #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Life of the Mind, Vol. 1 “Thinking,” Part 3, ch. 18 “The two-in-one” (1977)

More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/1350/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #amorality #apathy #banality #banalityofevil #decision #evil #good #indecision #lukewarm #moralchoice #moralcode #thoughtlessness #virtue #vice #evildoer #wrongdoing #rightandwrong #moralagency #responsiblity #takeresponsibility

#Politics #ukpol #ukpolitics #uspol #usPolitics #apathy #Pericles #selfinterest #selfinvolved #selfish #selfcentred #selfcentered #selfintererested #quote #quotes

There Is Reason For Hope. Here's The Proof - Barry's Economics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wen6C4UNw

#NeuroScience #Apathy #Change #SystemicOppression #Default #Community #Resistance #SocialContract #HumanRights #Empathy #Hope

A quotation from Henry Commager

We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

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A quotation from Henry Commager

We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

A quotation from Henry Commager

We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

A quotation from Henry Commager

We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

A quotation from Henry Commager

We do not need to fear ideas, but the censorship of ideas. We do not need to fear criticism, but the silencing of criticism. We do not need to fear excitement or agitation in the academic community, but timidity and apathy. We do not need to fear resistance to political leaders, but unquestioning acquiescence in whatever policies those leaders adopt.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1965-12-18), “The Problem of Dissent,” Saturday Review

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #commager #henrycommager #acquiescence #agitation #apathy #censorship #criticism #dissent #intellectualfreedom #resistance #silencing #timidity #academicfreedom

Understanding the difference between apathy and depression can be lifesaving for people with brain disorders
#Health #BrainHealth #MentalHealth #Apathy #Depression #Dementia #Alzheimers #Parkinsons #Neurology #Caregivers #AgingPopulation #CognitiveHealth
https://the-14.com/understanding-the-difference-between-apathy-and-depression-can-be-lifesaving-for-people-with-brain-disorders/

On Noise Pollution and a Skipped Bike Ride

I know, without a doubt that if I ride with one group, especially if there are only 25 people, that it will be hard. It's because of how hard I know the ride will be that I am not keen to join that group. despite this I still considered going for a bike ride this morning, until noisy neighbours made it impossible for me to have an early night.

There is a bad habit among alcoholics that they need to make noise at night without considering that others may want to sleep. I use the label noot because the people are alcoholics but rather because, in my experience people who behave in a toxic, selfish manner, are usually fuelled by alcohol. They only made noise until midnight but that still scuppered any chance of me going for that ride.

The Morning Fitness Tracker Visible Consequence

Both my Garmin Watch and Suunto watch told me that I was at a medium level of fitness this morning. If I had been able to go to sleep when I had planned to I could have been bright eyed and bushy tailed this morning, rather than fatigued.

Cold and Grey

Another factor for my motivation to cycle being low is that it's cold and grey, and that it's a Saturday. When it's cold and grey the roads are still wet and we can feel the cold during the bike ride. I don't need to ride in the morning. I can wait until the afternoon has warmed things up again.

I also have the freedom to ride tomorrow, rather than today. I can wait for the nice weather. On thursday the weather was the best it has been in weeks so I ran. If it had stayed good then I would have been tempted to ride.

Bad weather encourages me to run and walk, rather than cycle.

Tires inflated, Lights Charged and Kit Ready

Last night I had prepared absolutely everything, so I really expected that I would go for a bike ride today. If I had had a good night of sleep, and if I had been well rested then I am almost certain that I would have gone for my bike ride.

Silver Lining

Despite skipping the bike ride I behaved as if I intended to go on the bike ride. I believe that if I had been able to sleep, as desired. I would have gone on the group ride. Since I did not, I am fresh to go for a solo Sunday ride tomorrow, when I feel that roads are safer.

>#KamalaHarris Destroys Trump In 1st Speech Of 2026...<

#PoliticalCommunication

#Authoritarianism

>Sick And Tired<

"A long broken system has fueled #cynicism and yes #apathy and people are rightly #angry and profoundly frustrated.
Far too many have resigned themselves that well I guess it's just going to be this way.
All while those in power attempt to #divide the American people, attempt to make us #distrust each other, to turn on each other..."

#RebuildDemocracy

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ljYDZKqJHm8&si=g_wft0hTwPNlGQaE

In 2014, I wrote "#Humankind (hopefully) will not be extinguished by its own #bombs. The main reasons for our demise will be #mediocrity and #indifference."

In 2017, I blogged about that: https://karl-voit.at/2017/03/06/mediocrity/

And today: "#UN slams world’s ‘#apathy’ in launching aid appeal for 2026" https://manilastandard.net/news/world/314677768/un-slams-worlds-apathy-in-launching-aid-appeal-for-2026.html

Sometimes, I really hate it when I'm right. 😔

#publicvoit

A quotation from Montesquieu

A kingdom is not brought nearer to ruin by the tyranny of the sovereign than is a republic by indifference to the common welfare.
 
[La tyrannie d’un prince ne met pas un État plus près de sa ruine que l’indifférence pour le bien commun n’y met une république.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline [Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence], ch. 4 (1734, 1748 ed.) [tr. Baker (1882)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/2897/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #apathy #commongood #commonwealth #democracy #destruction #generalwelfare #indifference #republic #ruin

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves — and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Radio Broadcast (1944-10-05)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #America #apathy #democracy #righttovote #selfdefeating #vote #voting #votingrights

🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated

🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated

🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated

We can't know the future & so many are struggling in this world

Those who help most struggle most

Those who help least struggle least

The #middleclass produces despots by giving of themselves more to support #capitalism & #fascism, than ever to help those in #poverty

There's this state of #apathy & #complacency, built on fear, that keeps lined the pockets of those at upper echelons of #society

Like keeping those in power appeased, that they too aren't left with nothing

#MLK #Apathy #Complacency #PositiveAction

We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there "is" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's going to take everything we have to solve the climate crisis, and no serious conversation excludes nuclear.

Check out this interesting project by artist Steve Moore and consider sending some support! https://rovingreactor.org/

#nuclearenergy #fission #microreactor #apathy

It's going to take everything we have to solve the climate crisis, and no serious conversation excludes nuclear.

Check out this interesting project by artist Steve Moore and consider sending some support! https://rovingreactor.org/

#nuclearenergy #fission #microreactor #apathy

It's going to take everything we have to solve the climate crisis, and no serious conversation excludes nuclear.

Check out this interesting project by artist Steve Moore and consider sending some support! https://rovingreactor.org/

#nuclearenergy #fission #microreactor #apathy

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

I think the only reason for this book's popularity was the Vietnam war. The book is poorly structured and wastes a lot of time to say "it's all pointless."

The thing is: use nihilism for good, Kurt.

#BookReview #Fiction #FreeWill #Nihilism #Apathy #Literature #Vietnam #Dresden #WorldWar2 #POW #PrisonerOfWar #SoItGoes #Books #Classics