The age of apathy
If there is a vice or characteristic that is often regarded as typical of the modern Western world, it is apathy: that lazy, couldn’t-care-less indifference which marks out the couch potato, MTV world in which we live from previous generations.
Carl Trueman
Whether it is low voter turn-out at election time, or the seeming impossibility of raising public consciousness on big issues such as world poverty, apathy, it would seem, rules the day.
