I M Perfect lady

"Indifference enables everything that is bad."  Elie Wiesel

I highly recommend watching the interview Oprah had with Elie on her Soul Series…you can watch on Oprah.com.

What Elie says, "Indifference and passiveness is worse than hatred, it enables everything that is bad."

This is what I feel to the depth of my being.  It isn't that there is evil in the world or folks doing bad things, but that there is another huge segment of the population doing nothing…they are passive and indifferent, frozen.  And it is this indifference and passive response, that ENABLES EVERYTHING THAT IS BAD.

Whether it be within the structure of church and family, if you know and do nothing, you are enabling evil.  Indifference is the inertia; the glue that allows evil the wide open spaces to play.  Not enough people are caring to make a difference.

If we would only get that it is indifference that makes evil expand.  

I looked up the word Indifference.  "Lack of interest, concern, or sympathy; "his pretended indifference to criticism".

What does it mean if you lack interest and concern about others suffering?

It isn't about the bad being done, but that you lack the concern about the ones who are suffering or have suffered.

I have tasted this indifference and its flavor leaves you feeling that nobody cares.

That you don't matter enough…your life wasn't worthy.

I know, that the acts that my father committed were dimmed by the indifference of so many.

This is what stayed with me.  How could so many know and do nothing?

In my small example compared to what Elie has to write about, I too have found it hard to understand the silence.  It is the silence he says, he can't forgive.  And yet he has not lost the faith and hope in man.

Nor have I.

He wrote a new book titled, "Open Heart" and it is on my book list.   

He says "Think higher and feel deeper"...perhaps this is the way to lessen the indifference.  For I believe that for every evil act, there stands many people who are indifferent.

"To listen to a witness, is to become a witness."  Elie Wiesel