Elie Wiesel once said, "More dangerous than anger is indifference. Indifference is not a beginning it is an end and it is always the friend to the enemy." Indifference means not different; a state in which is not at the border of evil or good, but in between cruelty and compassion. It is not hard for one to become indifferent, when one is under pressure through a troubled period. Sometimes it is necessary at times to practice it simply to keep one's sanity, live a "normal" life and not become the talk of the century. Thus the more the enemy threatens, the less power one has and this becomes a greater strength to the enemy.
To go with the flow and not get in trouble for doing something odd, the people os today's society finds it much easier to look away from the interruptions and follow the rules. This concept not seen by many is being employed in work, at home, and especially in the media. Everybody has gotten used to listening to commercials and doing what it is saying. Sometimes people can express themselves to others, by laughing at them, when they do something different. For example, many children at school have witnessed an incident of embarrassment when they get laughed at, but soon enough this anger grows more. Yet nobody pays attention and eventually the kid just ignores and decides to give up on being a normal child. This same thing is happening in the media. In the news, there are always in Iraq and all over the world, yet there is no movement, only a flip of a channel. One is being controlled to know the news, but let no action heath to what is really happening. When the Jews heard their government was being corrupt, there were no actions but when they actually felt this physical abuse with threats of death at every corner, they did not have a choice.
Throughout the holocaust, many Jews felt frightened: with the Nazis, the concentration camps, and the crematory, that this ...