MetaFilter posts tagged with apathy

Whatever

netbros — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:47:06 -0800

Join the Apathy Party 08 campaign and make sure that nobody decides or makes a difference, because we couldn't care less. Americans everywhere will make their voices heard and their voices will say, "Whatever."

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don't vote

never used baby shoes — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:11:08 -0800

Alberta voted on March 3, 2008. Or did it? The record low turnout of 41.3% is causing questions to be asked. Declining voter turnout is not new in Canada. Elections Canada has studied the reasons behind it (full study indexed here), showing that many factors play a role in the decision not to vote. Is it time to explore the Australian solution?(pdf) In the meantime, American primaries are breaking records for voter turnout, showing that the trend can be overcome.

At Long Last, Have You Left No Sense of Decency?

dash_slot- — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:10:25 -0800

When students fail, and citizens are not allowed, to protest, maybe only actors can say what needs to be said. [WMV link here].

The Rebirth of SDS

digaman — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:42:38 -0800

Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win: SDS is reborn. Founded in 1959 and imploded ten tumultous years later, the Students for Democratic Society was one of the most dynamic and controversial forces at work in organizing a mass movement against the Vietnam war, particularly among draft-age kids. The group's original manifesto, Tom Hayden's Port Huron statement, still rings prophetic in Bush's America. Now SDS is relaunching and planning its first national convention since 1969, with a new crew of young radicals issuing calls to action to their own supposedly apathetic generation: "We seek liberation from the dominant business interests that have degraded our cities, paved over our communities, drowned out small business, and commodified our culture... Cooperative self-reliance is the only moral and material salvation of our nation, and the only release from a system that demands each of us be an accomplice to its heinous crimes."

ZachsMind — Fri, 20 Apr 2001 04:57:41 -0800

Apathyology: Ten or twelve years ago, back when I was in high school, some friends of mine were gonna start something called the National Apathy Society. I say were cuz we never did. That was the joke. We were all members of a club about apathy but we were too apathetic to... well you get it don't you? You don't? Well I don't care. My point is, and I do have one, I am highly suspect of any organization which claims to be apathetic but they actually have a website. Especially since I didn't think of doing it first.