It is indeed a cruel irony that the ruling class favors the apathetic and indolent. However, as you mentioned, such privileges will eventually run out.
I see what you mean. It is certainly true that the ruling class favors the apolitical in the sense that they do nothing to change the status quo.
To clarify my thought process, if the ruling class (here I was thinking in terms of liberal democracies, although I now understand the term "ruling class" has a much broader meaning) is supposed to represent the engaged citizenship, then the cruel irony is that it nevertheless remains most sympathetic in many ways to the interests of the apolitical (the status quo) because the ruling class is not so much the elected officials as it is the centralized bureaucracy run by an unelected administrative class.
Sorry for the confusion, and hopefully this makes sense!
It is indeed a cruel irony that the ruling class favors the apathetic and indolent. However, as you mentioned, such privileges will eventually run out.
cruel irony? They literally couldn't survive if they didn't. That's where all their power comes from
I see what you mean. It is certainly true that the ruling class favors the apolitical in the sense that they do nothing to change the status quo.
To clarify my thought process, if the ruling class (here I was thinking in terms of liberal democracies, although I now understand the term "ruling class" has a much broader meaning) is supposed to represent the engaged citizenship, then the cruel irony is that it nevertheless remains most sympathetic in many ways to the interests of the apolitical (the status quo) because the ruling class is not so much the elected officials as it is the centralized bureaucracy run by an unelected administrative class.
Sorry for the confusion, and hopefully this makes sense!
" is supposed to represent the engaged citizenship,"
it represents the capitalist class