"It was supposed to have been their time. It was not" - How 60's journalism resounds in 2021.
Joan Didion, April 1967 "Late one afternoon I sat in the Miramar lobby, watching the rain fall and the steam rise off the heated pool outside and listening to a couple of Jaycees discussing student unrest and whether the “solution” might not lie in on-campus Jaycee groups. I thought about this astonishing notion for a long time. It occurred to me finally that I was listening to a true underground, to the voice of all those who have felt themselves not merely shocked but personally betrayed by recent history. It was supposed to have been their time. It was not." Above are Joan Didion's words depicting two group members' acknowledgement of social justice's potential solutions not necessarily lying within the activity of the Jaycees convention they'd recently attended. The intellectual phenomenon was astonished by their notion; a possibility that perhaps it is not those who are 'shouting the loudest' who most desparately seek social remedies. Didion go
