Why is "agency" such a buzzword all of a sudden?
I read a lot, and have recently been seeing the word "agency" almost everywhere.
By "agency", I'm thinking of the social-science definition: "the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices", or perhaps more simply, "achieving control".
Why are people obsessing over this? Is this just the younger-sibling syndrome: "Everybody else has more choices than I do"?