Blessed Apathy

Apathy terrifies some people, some more deeply than others.  For others, it is seen as an intrinsic evil or obstacle to be overcome.  Almost never is it tackled in words as the more philosophically complex issue that it is.  What about apathy that is more selective and tailored to exclude concern for distractions from knowing and loving truth?  Just because a person experiences apathy towards making other people feel satisfied with themselves gratuitously, whether this attitude is natural or was induced over time, does not mean they are apathetic about everything and uninterested in absolute certainty, benevolence, justice, or deep relationships with other people.  The rationalistic usefulness of partial indifference like this does not even mean a person who experiences relentless concern to be kind to others in non-obligatory ways is irrational!

However, coldness and hostility are entirely valid attitudes to have towards people who are either too stupid to understand the difference between objective truths and personal preferences or too selfish to care more about their preferences than the former.  Regarding coldness, this is the kind of blessed apathy that frees one from desiring any sort of non-obligatory treatment that benefits the irrational out of an irrelevant, futile sense of kindness.  It is the kind of indifference that would make someone never even need to war within themselves in order to seek alignment with reason and to want to treat others as they deserve, not as either party wishes.  For those who never had to fight to reach this point, they have reason to celebrate.

The person who can naturally live without caring for the random, subjective desires of people who do not care about understanding reality has the ideal situation.  It is not that people with a natural desire to just appease people cannot be perfectly rationalistic and have a stronger desire to be rational and just instead of submitting to societal norms.  On the contrary, anyone, regardless of personality, can be perfectly consistent in true rationalism.  It is just that this kind of apathy is an objectively liberating and potentially exciting thing that frees people from the shackles of concern for the arbitrary beliefs, social customs, emotionalistic assumptions, and philosophical aimlessness that so clearly define all non-rationalists to some extent.

Apathy is not always a sign of philosophical indifference or an unwillingness to carry out Biblical obligations.  As with hatred, apathy is philosophically helpful or a hindrance depending on the motives, beliefs, and actions of a person.  It is truly ideal to be purely apathetic or outright hostile towards everyone who does not bow to reality as it is, from the most foundational logical truths to the most nuanced probabilistic likelihoods to the most esoteric facts rationalism can unveil.  A person too simplistic to understand the nuance of truths is just likely to deny this or hate it even if someone else refutes the contrary idea to their face.  If they were to realize this purely on their own or with someone else's help, it might have ramifications that demand thorough changes to their worldview, and that is something many try hard to avoid.