Popular Turkish author, Elif Shafak, believes that we are living in the age of three A’s—Anxiety, Anger and AI. It is hard to disagree. Look around. Anxiety is everywhere. Tacit. Persistent. It lives in notifications, deadlines, uncertainty. It hums in the background of everyday life.

For Anger, we see it as louder. It spills into conversations. Into social media. Into homes. People react faster than they reflect. Making anger more lethal.

And then there is AI. Fast. Efficient. Expanding. It writes. It responds. It predicts. It changes how we work. How we learn. How we relate.

So, these 3A’s are three strong forces. All powerful. All shaping how we feel and how we behave.

But Elif Shafak adds a fourth A. Less visible. More dangerous. It’s Apathy. Not loud like anger. Not restless like anxiety. Not disruptive like AI.

Apathy is silent. It does not shout. It withdraws. It is when suffering becomes just another passing headline; when we stop caring; when we stop feeling deeply; and when injustice........

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