Wondering...

...when "activist," became a dirty word.

Us, rebel? So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame -- 'That's so '60s!' -- the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last-century,' just... another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets.

-Laura Kipnis