The Perfect Humanoid Symbol, 12

All in all, all these points of view float in the same stream and in the same direction, and that stream flows into the sea of full−blown apathy. Have you ever mulled over apathy? It probably could be summed up in a definition, a concept, a common denominator: “Nothing can be done about it.” Or: “No one can do anything for anything and anyone whatsoever, never and no matter how; no chance, no hope and that’s it.” The initial short one applies to apathy circumscribed towards something specific; the ensuing longer one applies as things worsen and the epidemics of apathy propagates. Apathy is even far more dangerous a threat than the hostile passivity of the material universe. Because apathy is not inaction. The apathetic is actively being passive. The apathetic is causing his or her own being effect. The stillness is the result of hidden force applied, not of absence of force, and that hidden force is more than just a liability to others. Woe betide any sacrilegious infidel who dares to insinuate that something can be done about it. The apathetic is going to unleash all possible invisible weapons to destroy – that is, reduce to apathy – him or her, too. The heretic will be sent to so concealed a stake that he or she will soon be dust without even noticing it, because by then utterly convinced that everything, him or herself included, is but cold dust. Infected dust. A guy once said, “God is dead, everything is possible.” Well, it could be said, “hope is dead, anything wrong is possible.” Since in the realm of apathy nothing is possible and the defeat is complete, therefore nothing matters anyway so either anyone will do anything or will not do anything at all, as it makes no difference anyway. Who cares? Why caring since it is useless anyway? Apathy is the basic behind many human gaps even long before they become humanoid: it makes the infected shrug while sitting on the rail watching the incoming train. If that underlying basic remains unresolved, hardly the gaps above will unlock. And if apathy is giving up hope, then its cure is restoring hope in the individual’s eyes. That much hope restored in a given direction, that much apathy relieved and that much of its contagion circumscribed. That much under zero the state of the individual, that much mud there is to shovel up to merely have any chance to dig up any way out. Since ways out are all hidden above zero; the more one is above zero, the less hidden and more numerous they are.