The Risk of Apathy

The first time I heard the word ‘apathy’ repeatedly in the press was when I was a kid, and it was to describe post-Vietnam War unemployment. Specifically, it described those who were unemployed. It was intended to depict them as lazy, as having brought on their joblessness themselves, completely divested of the circumstances that led to it.  A decade later, ‘apathy’ sold headlines describing Gen...

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