The difference between apathy and giving a damn is art. Apathetic persons, apathists, if you will, do not see aesthetics like those who give a damn, and couldn't care less for the beauty of the world that moves those who give a damn.
If apathy is opposite from art, then apathists are opposite from artists, those who give a damn. This completely turns on its ear the definition of art. Art is, in following with this line of thought, anything that defies apathy. Artists, then, are those who do anything that defies apathy.
Apathists vastly outnumber artists. Their disinterest plagues the world, and will end it, unless we artists do something about them. Apathy needs to either be cured or destroyed.
A war on apathy would be as effective as a war on terror. A campaign for art, however, would achieve the same ends.
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Apathy can inspire art. So it's destruction might also destroy art.
If there's no fear, no anger, how can there be hope?
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