Innocent Activism

It was a more innocent time.  We thought all we had to do was point out what was wrong or saw what ought to be.  People would thank us for pointing out what they had overlooked and the world would get better.  That was the plan.  It was so simple, so reasonable and fair.  It ought to have worked, but told of injustice most were unmoved.  Hearing of pain and starvation, they let it go on.  They heard what we said but heard other and more insistent voices talking less of concern than of profit, and of change as disruptive or benefitting only the poor.  There is nothing wrong with innocence and it was in a way our strength, but its loss became so much harder.