How can a message about a political or social issue distract anyone from music that has an evident political and social meaning in itself? How can it prevent anyone to take action against unequality? I've read many posts in this forum criticising Bono for speaking of Suu Kyii at the beginning of Walk On as a distraction! Sad.
There are many people who don't care about social problems, I'm not saying they are bad people, no, they care about their families and country, and maybe they are the nicest people in the world, but they don't care about what isn't immediately before them, then, there are people who understand that some of our preminent position in Western countries is due to the explotation and the denying of our same rights to others and don't want to lose their position, and people who think that our pretty, little crisis, provoked by bank holders, entitles us to care only about ourselves.
But having to recognise that is not only politically incorrect in our days, but it must be hurtful for some, so, instead of it, they criticise the messager, they hate him and want him to change, moreover, they demand him to change because they have paid him some euros/dollars for attending to a show, when he doesn't, they conclude he must be hypocrital, which somehow reminds me of the fox and the grapes tale.
