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A Globe of Shoulder Shruggers: Why Total Collective Apathy Would be Devastating
If anything unites us in our current world of democratically fragile, emotionally saturated, geopolitical intensity, it is, perhaps, our collective exhaustion. Some of us still live lives of relative privilege, some are facing the consequences of someone else's conflict, and just about everyone is driven by some sort of fear or, in what seems a concerningly growing trend, apathy. In the face of this, when a news bulletin that would previously have pierced the soul of a nation or caused permanent alarm becomes just another fact of life, how can we possibly recover?