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There is room in America for the whole spectrum of lifestyles. If you take the generation that came of age in the sixties, some of them are still groping, tunneling inward in a trough of hope, experimentation, apathy, and self-analysis, tentatively circling the void of their old commitments. They have chosen the inner voyage. But some of those undergraduates who were screaming Marxist slogans and disrupting the campuses are now public servants. It turns out that the guerrilla tactics of the sixties were a training ground for the establishment. John Froines, one of the Chicago Seven, is the official who supervises industrial health regulations in Vermont. Paul Soglin, who in 1967 organized a protest against Dow Chemical at the University of Wisconsin, is now mayor of Madison. These are the little ironies of American life. One year you are clubbed by the forces of law and order, and the next year you are responsible for the police budget."
—S. Wok (formerly John Skow)