WHAT IT BOILS DOWN TO

i saw this piece of graffiti last week. big, black, lowercase letters on a cream wall. it said:

it doesn't matter!

and then, in smaller, gold letters, someone had replied:

yes it does.

every day since then i've thought of that wall, and had that very dialogue with myself about something or another. the first option offers freedom / the second offers hope. the first is apathetic / the second is stifled. the first describes the big picture / the second describes the details. (or vice versa.) the first statement should be amended with "enough" or "to me" / the second statement with "to someone" or "sometimes".

it's stuck in my brain like some kind of philosophical/political earworm!