The Innocent

Institutional depravity is at its worst when it crushes the innocent to protect the status quo.  You can look at the Covid debacle and just get into politics.  I will go to something of which I am more certain and let you draw your own conclusions.  About 2000 years ago, give or take, a fellow was condemned to death by institutional forces.  It has been agreed by everyone now that he was innocent.  He got in the way of the status quo.  At one point he is on the way to his execution, all whipped and beaten.  He falls to the ground because he cannot carry the instrument for his slow execution.  An African fellow, standing nearby, is picked out to carry the poor fellow’s cross beam.  He had a common name, Simon.  Apparently, the fellow on the ground had a friend also named Simon who had abandoned him.  So what is your response to the crushed innocent today?  Crushed by what?  Debt, hunger, bills to pay, fear of work in which the status quo does not do enough to protect them from Covid, people suffering from underfunded, budget-cut medical facilities and so on.  I ask myself, which. Simon am I going to be?  The fellow on the ground died anyway, but at least someone was there to do what little he could do.  The results are not up to me, but the effort is.