On Activisim and Escapism

People talk a lot about the juvenailia so prominent in the art world these days. The faux naive and childish get criticized as escapist. But activism is possibly also a form of escapism. Activity breeds a false sense of progress at times. I think if you really have to weigh whether or not our actions either active or apathetic make much of a difference, I honestly don't know. Maybe activists are trying to escape the fundamental truth of their powerlessness and impotence by making gestures that relive their guilt? And people blamed for being naive escapists are just embracing their powerlessness in some sort of Buddhist way and warming up to the reality of their own insignificance. I don't think there is anything wrong with either approach as long as there is always some sort of lingering possibility in the back of people's minds that they could be wrong.