While outside, storms raged and change rapidly followed change, one's own life was left to grind to a halt. Time, regardless of history, fashion, politics, sex and the media, was to take its due course. Average folks considered themselves cogs in some giant machine, and were proud to admit it. They saw to it that the trains ran on schedule, and returned home at night in time for supper. Instead of the old barriers, such as caste, sex, and religion, innocence introduced such bromides as tolerance, openness, and harmony.
Positivism become lifestyle.
Positivist critique served the reconstruction of politics and culture. There reigned a clear and simple view of reality. The innocent did not incorporate the Good, they just hadn't a clue, though not lacking in standards. Crime was not for them. Thus, they involuntarily became the objects of strategies of Good and Evil.