Phenomenology of Feelings

There are significant differences between indifference at the level of interpersonal relationships or inter-human relations in terms of social roles and statuses, on the one hand, and indifference on a social scale, between social groups and communities, from one part of society to another, one ethnic, cultural, linguistic, etc. community to another, to one national society to a minority, to one race against another race, etc. Social indifference, resting and related to power, produces social disintegration and, sooner or later, provokes protests, social conflicts, bouts and revolutions ...

Human relations, insured against indifference, a society in which indifference is completely eradicated, is utopia. There are bitter attempts to realize similar utopias, which is inevitable with the violence and atrocities that, as we know, remain indescribable. The principle impossibility of a human world without the poisonous seeds of indifference must not suggest melancholia, but to cause us to respond with the proportion of the requirements of the day, as expressed by Weber in another instance.