“Every age has its representative age group—ours is youth. Spirit of the age is being cool, dehumanized, play, sensation, apolitical.”
From As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964 - 1980, by Susan Sontag. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, p. 78. This quote is from 1965.
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