Heroes

How very odd.

I always kind of forget that vari­ous fig­ures of his­tory that I admire are very likely still wan­der­ing around, very much alive, and still doing inter­est­ing things with their lives. For some reason, because so many of the 50s and 60s counter-cul­ture are dead (Gins­berg, Lennon, Bur­roughs, Ker­ouac) I ima­gine others are too.

There was a sen­tence at the bottom of this art­icle on the Paris riots that sur­prised me:

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leader of the May 1968 stu­dent upris­ing in France and now a German member of the European Par­lia­ment told Der Spiegel newspaper. 

*blink*

He’s alive? He’s a member of the German par­lia­ment? Wow. Weird.

EDIT: And now that I’ve gone search­ing, and seen fairly recent pic­tures of him, it seems I might have known that, some­where in the deep recesses of my mind, and for­got­ten it, or not made the connection…