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"en étant cruel" means "while being cruel" or" by being cruel".

while "étant cruel" just means "being cruel"

So "Le monde, étant cruel, l'ignore" would make sense. "The world, being cruel, ignores him".

But "Le monde, en étant cruel, l'ignore", while grammatically correct, is strange in terms of its meaning. It would mean that the world ignores him by being cruel. Logically that doesn't really work.

The world ignores him because it's a cruel world, not by means of being a cruel world.