Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this extremely important topic. Indeed, many people live in a constant state of unaware reactiveness, seeking to numb their minds or at least pleasure themselves because to face the truth is too scary.
There is something missing in your message. I am rather sleepy, so I cannot put my finger on it - it is not a specific thing, I think, but something general. Perhaps it is the formatting or organization? I cannot say at this point. Sorry. :(
Hehe, I don't know hat you're referring to, oh well. Thanks for the feedback ;)
I'm reading through it again, now that I'm not sleepy, and so far these are my observations. I agree with most of what you wrote. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts! You are on the right track, but there are aspects of your message that are problematic. I encourage you to learn about emotional self-mastery because it will greatly enhance your understanding and messages, with the consequence that your efforts to change the world will be more effective.
1... "**Anger is required in the awakening process, at least at first."
Yes, a catalyst is needed, but it does not need to be anger that shakes someone out of the apathy you describe. Other strong emotions can also do so, but it is always important to replace any destructive feelings with constructive action and cleanse our hearts, otherwise we will be pulled into the same primitivism and destruction that caught our attention in the first place. Look at the way much of the US public has been behaving since at least George Bush's reign of fear-mongering. Look at what the last election did - and is still doing - in great degree because of the machinations of the media moguls and their focus on negativity.
2... "If you're not angry at the horrors and evil when you first learn about them, something is wrong inside of you where your capacity to feel has been deadened because you have a deadened "heart"-center, care, compassion, conscience and morality."
No, this is simply not true. Different people, thanks to empathy and their life experiences, react differently to such things. Not everyone will get angry, nor is anger necessary. If you apply EQ in your life, sinking into anger is counter-productive. Anger reduces awareness and leads to reactionary behavior. Other emotions exist, such as indignation, horror, fear, sadness, etc. ONLY reacting with anger is an indication that there is something wrong inside of you, with your ability to feel, recognize and process emotions, to deal with situations in which you have little or no control, to cope with stress, etc. Being able to react to these things, with your emotions fully under your control, but not absent, is the mark of someone who is very mindful and a master of their emotions. Just because you, or I, reacts with anger doesn't mean it is the most appropriate reaction, nor the most useful. I should know - I have struggled with anger for most of my life and I recognize that many times it is NOT the appropriate response, even if I am not immediately able to stop it or redirect it into something constructive. Anger arises from the primitive brain, from a part of the emotional range that we feel we're not allowed to express - because of the very things you started your essay with.
3... "The lack of care of engaging in this responsibility and the fear to own up to this level of responsibility, is why people actually fear truth and choose to ignore, deny, reject, deflect and dismiss the truth because it's not convenient or comfortable for them in their current conditioning into falsity.
They run from the truth as a coward because they don't care for truth to seek it."
This is an over-simplification of the human condition. Yes, there are people who fit this description, but there are others who do. Many who try to face the monster you are railing against are so overwhelmed by the immensity of it, the seeming lack of solutions, that they are paralyzed by hopelessness, and pushed back by what seems a monumental and unsolvable problem that is threatening to tear the world apart at any moment. Some become so full of despair that they become depressed and sometimes kill themselves. Others have a mental breakdown and end up on the streets, unable to function in society anymore. Others have to turn their backs on it so they can continue to cope, but they wear blinders to try and ignore the truth that beat them to a pulp and, yet, that truth still exists inside them, grinding away at them like some inexorable glacier gliding into the ocean, causing a delayed emotional response. Still others struggle, they fall, they rise again, and keep on trying to figure things out, even if they can't, sometimes giving themselves health problems as a result of the strain of coping with something so massive but that they cannot figure out a solution to. I fall into that latter category, and it is oh-so-hard to balance on that wire.
And then there are the others. Those who know there is wrong in the world, and then are tricked by other people, who take advantage of that angst, manipulating those poor people by using their emotional responses and lack of mindfulness against them, playing on those emotions that have sparked their awareness, and conditioning them in such a way that they cannot be reasoned with through logic - it will not penetrate the emotions that are always triggered by that subject.
Use your empathy to understand those people who don't react the way you do. Write with full empathy and don't condemn those who seem different, or weak, or indifferent. Many people cannot see beyond their own perspective, see the big picture, the chess board we are on, or how destructive it is. Never forget this - your message will go much farther and "infect" more people.