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For instance, one might read in the newspapers that the Shining Path terrorists in Peru have staged another massacre. One becomes angry when one reads about it, but invariably one put the paper aside and sits down to another cup of coffee. Soon, the story recedes into the background and is forgotten. That's apathy! But is it passive? The bullets that the paper tells about, that struck the people to the ground, were real. They were paid for from dope money. The global dope operations rake in an estimated two trillion dollars per year. These narco-dollars exceed in volume the combined value produced by several industrialized nations. They flood the financial markets, cause political destabilization, and worst of all, they feed the oligarchy which fights a vicious battle against the very state in which the person might live who puts the paper down - which may be the last paper that person ever buys as the state economy collapses, putting an end to employment and family income.
Political apathy is an active process. It opens the door to all the great tragedies that come upon mankind.
The normal condition of the genius of man is alertness, which causes corresponding scientific action. These actions invalidate apathy. The two upwards oriented environments are the natural environment of man. One might call them Scientific activism. Political apathy, on the other hand, is a force that prevents this natural flow. The impeding tendency of political apathy hinders the unfolding of such correct actions as establishing nation-states and the conditions for human progress, while the tendency of apathy is to create the conditions for the various forms of terrorism, conservatism and anarchy. Apathy allows the oligarchy and its fronts, such as the U.N. and IMF, free reign.
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