What is the bigger problem: Ignorance or Apathy?
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What is the bigger problem: Ignorance or Apathy?
What do you think is the bigger problem in the world today?
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Oh, I'd definitely say "ignorance" since it can cause apathy. That's why so many people never vote...a lack of interest in getting to REALLY know the issues and candidates. But I can see the other side too...that's why people arr apethetic, because they've heard too much and don't like it...but that's no excuse not to keep informed and involved.
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But Weeks, wouldn't that be a symptom of apathy? If I were apathetic, I'd certainly go about trying to fill my sense of meaninglessness and uselessness with more materialistic and vulgar pursuits. Not that I don't, mind you...The Weekenders wrote:But seriously, neither. Its some kind of post-modern narcosis marked by distraction and what little impulse there is involves acquisition.
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I'm not apathetic.
In fact, several people have told me i'm definitely pathetic!
In fact, several people have told me i'm definitely pathetic!
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Actually, I think I can vote here although I regard both as serious problems. If someone knowlegable is apathetic, that is a loss but, so long as someone else has the knowledge, no harm is done. But if someone fully engaged is deeply ignorant, that person is a menace. A problem with career politics is that so much work is required to build the career that there is no time to acquire knowledge. Another problem is that it is not knowledge that advances the career.
One curiosity though is that once I know that a person is deeply ignorant, I hope fervently that they are also apathetic.
Actually, I think I can vote here although I regard both as serious problems. If someone knowlegable is apathetic, that is a loss but, so long as someone else has the knowledge, no harm is done. But if someone fully engaged is deeply ignorant, that person is a menace. A problem with career politics is that so much work is required to build the career that there is no time to acquire knowledge. Another problem is that it is not knowledge that advances the career.
One curiosity though is that once I know that a person is deeply ignorant, I hope fervently that they are also apathetic.
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I say it's rather a toss up - Apathy breeds ignore-ance, and ignorance breeds apathy... I detest both... but I think I'd have to say that apathy may be worse, because it implies that you do know the situation, you just don't care to do anything about it. Ignorance can be cured with knowledge - apathy is another thing... and the more I think about it, the more I'd rather do something else!Lorenzo wrote:Oh, I'd definitely say "ignorance" since it can cause apathy. That's why so many people never vote...a lack of interest in getting to REALLY know the issues and candidates. But I can see the other side too...that's why people arr apethetic, because they've heard too much and don't like it...but that's no excuse not to keep informed and involved.
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