One feels no need to count with the others. One can follow his own will. Exact that is the essence of criminality. Indeed it is a fact that indifferent people are very receptive for it. Under these circumstances it is easily possible for the most powerful criminals to mislead the people so that they walk on behind them.
Every authoritarian society shows the same pattern.
Its ideology pretends to give values and a reliable hold to the people, while in fact a number of criminals exploit them. Indeed this is in accordance with the theories of those sociologists. But all of this handles about 'spiritual indifference' and that is totally different from real nihilism. Nihilism has nothing to do with indifference as a passive attitude against reality. On the contrary, nihilism is an intellectual attitude of life and it is far from passive.