{"id":445,"date":"2017-10-25T05:41:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T05:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/?p=445"},"modified":"2017-12-03T21:29:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T21:29:18","slug":"the-myth-of-apathy-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/10\/25\/the-myth-of-apathy-and\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Myth of Apathy&#8217; and the Importance of Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the distinctions between \u2018apathy\u2019 and \u2018an overwhelming sensation of caring too much and having your mind shut down\u2019 create different views of how humanity reacts, it still leaves us paralyzed. Emotions and action are still not happening whether it\u2019s because they never existed or they were shut off or ignored. Either way, there\u2019s no way to definitively prove the processes of thought and reasoning going on in peoples\u2019 brains, is there?<\/p>\n<p>However, on the other hand, unraveling why people do things or <em>don\u2019t<\/em> do things is important because then we can begin to reason out solutions and ways to change their thought processes. Also, the assumptions we make about other humans and their motivations for doing things change the actuality of what humans are. If we project a reality based on cold bartering, where no one will help each other unless they get something in return, then we\u2019re sending expectations that will be fulfilled by those we interact with. If we project a reality where conscientious caring is expected, where children are taught to love their grandmothers and the Earth they live on, then we are creating a community that will function with sustainability. It depends on the standards and the norms that we create in our culture.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of change isn\u2019t gratuitous, it isn\u2019t something that you see coming about in a few years, and it isn\u2019t easy. It\u2019s something that you work at and hope for your entire life, that you try to impart to your children. If you enact this trust in strangers, in everyone you interact with, you\u2019re going to be disappointed. Not everyone will live up to your expectations. That doesn\u2019t mean you should give up on people or stop believing in the capacity for sacrifice and compassion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-455\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/636074650472031213922896828_1395936858947.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1608\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/636074650472031213922896828_1395936858947.jpg 1608w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/636074650472031213922896828_1395936858947-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/636074650472031213922896828_1395936858947-768x573.jpg 768w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/636074650472031213922896828_1395936858947-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/636074650472031213922896828_1395936858947-624x466.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1608px) 100vw, 1608px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/335729347198804890\/?lp=true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the distinctions between \u2018apathy\u2019 and \u2018an overwhelming sensation of caring too much and having your mind shut down\u2019 create different views of how humanity reacts, it still leaves us paralyzed. Emotions and action are still not happening whether it\u2019s because they never existed or they were shut off or ignored. Either way, there\u2019s no way to definitively prove the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/2017\/10\/25\/the-myth-of-apathy-and\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[4,43,7,39,30,21],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-4-contemplative-practices","tag-agency","tag-anthropocene","tag-citizenship","tag-community","tag-earth","tag-psychologicalresilience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/honr392a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}