A huge percentage of this beautiful, insane, vocal, wild population cares about something. All this trying, scrounging, struggling - it's starting to sound like Radiohead's OK Computer . This is all personal choice. Cynicism or apathy, which I'm not so sure you can separate anyway. People should care about the world they live in and try and make it better.
Movements do, on occasion, make a difference in the world.
And I know that because I didn't get myself to Seattle or Philadelphia or Los Angeles this year, I don't have loads of room to talk. Think of it as crying wolf, I guess. But even as I write this my opinion's changing. It just seems to me that there are a bunch of people running around loaded with opinions and convictions that are loosely-based on random headlines, benefit raves, some hipster's drunken MTV revelations and fliers thrown around the streets. I might get into trouble here, but the whole Mumia cult seems like a prime example of people throwing themselves into a cause because it's hip.