I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.