In praise of apathy......................

      Democracy cannot work without a fair level of political and social stability.  This implies a certain level of political apathy.  Anything resembling fanaticism, a domination of the normal internal debate by "activists" is plainly to be deplored.

-Robert Conquest, The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History

Still true seventy years later.........

 To frame a philosophy capable of coping with men intoxicated with the prospect of almost unlimited power and also with the apathy of the powerless is the most pressing task of our time.

-Bertrand Russell