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THE MAJORITY:
UNCOMMITIED
UNCONCERNED
AND
UNAWARE
by
Garner Ted Armstrong
lt 's crazy time. Alarm and apathy shouldn't mix, nor " Christian gunmen, " but they do. Today, when
awesome world events demand urgent action, when frightening trends in conditions demand the
soberest contemplation, when violence, kidnappings, assassinations, murders, civil wars,
hijackings, and the toppling of governments should cause the deepest i ntrospection, the millions
doze. Famine with flatulence, emergency with ease, crisis wíthout concern: none real/y mix. Yet
they prevail. What about you? Would you go toa poker game in a burning house? Swim in a
typhoon? Fly serene/y ínto a thunderstorm? Walk lazily through a mine field? Liberal/y lace your
scotch with arsenic? Líe down to s/eep on a sinking ship? lt 's time you wondered about the
paradox of apathy in a time demandlng total commitment.
F
ew humans are truly aware. Oh ,
we become sensi tized to the little
things - things that afTect our
daily lives in sorne important way –
like joblessness. low wages. high
taxes, soaring insurance rates. or
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PLAIN TRUTH February 1977
gun control. But very few seem ca–
pable of comparing potential Arab
oil embargoes with the price of
wheat in Canada; the transi tion of
government in America to the
potential for war in Korea or Yugo-
slavia; the incredible. yet under–
played, little noticed, unpublicized
drought that has gripped Europe,
Britain, Canada and the U.S. with
international relations and the price
of food. Nor are very many able, it
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