{"id":1466,"date":"2015-04-11T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T08:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katehollett.com\/?p=1466"},"modified":"2022-04-03T13:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T13:33:24","slug":"the-future-is-now-there-is-no-future-apathy-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/?p=1466","title":{"rendered":"The Future is Now (there is no future); Apathy & Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pic by Sarah Hamm of Gilbert, Arizona. She had brought her two-week-old daughter Kaylee Rowland to meet her 101-year-old Grandma Rosa Camfield.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

\"But what about apathy? If you see people being indifferent about a task, is that contagious as well? This question was explored by\u00a0by Pontus Leander, James Shah, and Stacey Sanders in a paper published in the August, 2014 issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (link is external)<\/span><\/span><\/a>....<\/em><\/p>\n

We interpret the actions of the people around us. When we see people acting indifferently to a task, we know that they are expressing a lack of interest in that task. That lack of interest is then related to our existing commitment to a goal. When we are wavering in our commitment to a goal, then seeing others who are apathetic nudges us in the direction of giving up. When we are highly committed to a goal, then seeing others who are apathetic actually increases our commitment.\"<\/em><\/p>\n

Ideas of commitment and apathy morph as our commitment to time wavers. Commitment requires an ideal of a future, something to plan for, commit to. We used to commit to marriage, having the dream of house, family, a good job, security... We used to commit to something a week later, now with choice, we postpone decision until moments before, weighing experience and time spent for value.<\/p>\n

As we face a world transparent in it's lack of commitment, crooked politicians, economic disparity, social injustices, environmental destruction, defending ideals today is a difficult task. There is no way not to be part of the problem and\/or be affected by our lack of commitment to each other. At some point, it is easy to see why people get apathetic, commitment resistant.<\/p>\n

Time is getting more valuable than almost any other resource. Not only is technology speeding up our lives, giving us mind numbing, innumerable options and short duration communication; our environment is telling us we need to change, act fast, time is not on our side.<\/p>\n

Does this affect our ability to commit to each other? Is this a process deconstructing values, or reconstructing meaning? Even though we may live longer than our predecessors, our future as a species is less predictable. Are we becoming more selfish or learning to live based on the idea that life is indeed, short.<\/p>\n

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Pic by Sarah Hamm of Gilbert, Arizona. She had brought her two-week-old daughter Kaylee Rowland to meet her 101-year-old Grandma Rosa Camfield. “But what about apathy? If you see people being indifferent about a task, is that contagious as well? This question was explored by\u00a0by Pontus Leander, James Shah, and Stacey Sanders in a paper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19],"tags":[30,31,26,21,32,33,29],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allsorts","category-blog-posts","tag-apathy","tag-commitment","tag-context","tag-distance","tag-future","tag-now","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katehollett.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}