What happened to our motivation?

To the left is an image captured at a peace rally in the 60's. Look at the motivation and enthusiasm these individuals held for a cause they believed in. In our day all I see of our "causes" is a lot of talk. People have no problem opening their mouths and ranting about how bad President Bush is doing or how global warming will soon take over, but when asked what have they done. A glazed over look will appear and they will try to divert your attention with some other bitter diatribe. I wish we could re-kindle the passion that our parents and grandparents felt in the days of Haight-Ashbury. If you don't like the war, start a protest. Do you want gay rights? Well right a letter to your fucking local senator. Sitting there day after day, running your mouth to the same old people isn't going to do anything. You are wasting time and just spewing more carbon dioxide into the air. Stand up, shout, try and make a difference. There are so many oppurtunities at our hands to make a difference and it seems that we accomplish none of them. Now I am not saying that nobody helps. Because there are individuals who take the steps to break through the impetuious doom that our country is inevitably heading towards. To those people I commend you. You truly are making a difference. For the rest of us... I feel empathetic. If we don't step up and follow the paths and steps that our parents did 40 years ago... What is going to happen? What will the Post-Bush America look like if we don't help straighten the narrow path our country is already on? When our time of need comes and every other country turns their backs on us, because we did the same thing to them, who are we to blame? Nobody but ourselves and here the problem lays. A revolution of sorts must begin or our country of "democracy" and "freedom" will inevitably fall to the wayside.