Proactive Apathy

[bcholmes]

As always, a couple of people hurried to write in to tell me they don't care about the Parliamentary Press Gallery. As always, this type of letter is the most entertaining I get. I don't know about you, but when I don't care about something, I tend to... you know... ignore it. When I posted on jazz last week, nobody wrote to tell me they don't care about jazz (well, nobody except Scott Reid). When I wrote about Pluto, nobody wrote to say they didn't care about Pluto. They just didn't write.

The I-don't-care-about-journalists crowd, on the other hand, is vigorous and proactive in its apathy. They must be fun to drive around town with. "Hey, look at that house! God, I don't care about that house. Pull over."

— Paul Wells

Comments

[surelars.livejournal.com]

"Proactive Apathy". Gotta love it. Thanks for posting this.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant.