I know I should care. I know I should. I know. But I don't. And you can't make me.

One should never underestimate the apathy of an individual. The indifference that one person can feel, truly feel, is incredible. Groups, so far as I can tell, care. They have to. The people who come together to form groups have to care (at the very least about making the group) in order for it to survive. It is in the interest of every "group" to make its members care: if they didn't care or at any point stopped caring, they would become defunct and would no longer be a group. They would be individuals. That is, they would become individuals once again--their identity being theirs and theirs alone--no longer a part of a group, but apart from it. Only insofar as individuals become indifferent do they become themselves.

This, I think, is how I feel about the inauguration.