Thread by @MeetJess

The greatest threat to the world isn’t chaos.
It’s apathy.
The quiet shrug. The numb scroll. The decision to feel nothing.
And it’s killing us faster than we realize.
🧵

Apathy is not passive.
It’s not neutral.
It’s a choice.
A decision to turn away when people are screaming for help.
A conscious refusal to care because caring costs something.

Look around:
– Genocide in real time
– A pandemic still disabling millions
– Climate collapse accelerating
– Democracies crumbling
– Billionaires getting richer as the rest of us choke on ash and debt

And still… silence.

Apathy says:
“It’s not my problem.”
“It’s too complicated.”
“I don’t want to get political.”
What it means is:
“I am comfortable enough to look away.”

We’ve made numbness a virtue.
We call it “staying sane.”
We call it “setting boundaries.”
But what we’re really doing is building walls between ourselves and our humanity.

They want you apathetic.
They want you distracted, exhausted, overstimulated and under-informed.
Because apathy doesn’t riot.
Apathy doesn’t organize.
Apathy doesn't change anything.

Apathy is the perfect tool of power.
Because when you stop caring,
they stop being accountable.
You become easy to control.
You become quiet.
And the world keeps burning without resistance.

Empathy is painful.
It should be.
You should feel a knot in your gut when children die.
You should lose sleep when your leaders lie.
You should be angry. That anger is sacred.

But instead, we scroll.
We mute.
We unfollow.
We drown truth in aesthetics and call it self-care.
It’s not self-care if it costs someone else their life.

You’re not too sensitive.
The world is too cruel.
And it’s counting on your sensitivity eroding.

They say, “The world’s too far gone.”
But hopelessness is apathy in disguise.
It’s the coward’s retreat.
It’s easier to believe nothing matters than to risk believing it could.

Because if it could, then you’d have to do something.
You’d have to speak up. Show up. Risk something.
And apathy whispers: “Don’t. Just keep scrolling. Stay soft. Stay silent.”

And the status quo is killing us.
It's killing children.
It's killing the disabled.
It's killing the climate.
It’s killing empathy itself.

The world doesn’t need more noise.
It needs conscience.
It needs people willing to give a damn—loudly, inconveniently, relentlessly.

When you say, “I don’t want to get involved,”
you already are involved—on the side of power.
Because silence doesn’t protect the oppressed.
It shields the oppressors.

People say they’re tired.
Tired of hearing about death.
Tired of masks.
Tired of politics.
But they’re not the ones dying.
They’re just tired of being reminded.

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