1. That Guy Fawkes Mask
Ah, Guy Fawkes. Who would have thought that during the low point of your mythology you would be reduced to a nursery rhyme that was popular only on one island country with its own identity issues? But thanks to a set of American filmmaking brothers, an Israeli-born Natalie Portman willing to shave her head, and the voice of New Zealand's Hugo Weaving, your face has become the symbol of an elite click of cyber-super vigilantes that comb the world's internet always willing to prove their powers over the powers (and people) that claim to be superior to the common good. Or not, depending on your media sources, but let's not get into that. Legislators in the world's top countries have debated over making just the wearing of your mask out in public an illegal offense, punishable by jail. Despite your pale appearance and your colored cheek-bones and pencil-thin mustache only John Waters could love, you have become a symbol not only of a discontented generation but also of a world that is on the brink of something more than can be labelled, controlled and pacified by the current powers that be. Your mask has become the symbol of something more, a symbol of an enlightened social consciousness that is not comfortable with the status quo, like a Keep Calm and Chive On flag pinned in your dorm room. And all you had to do was attempt to blow up one of England's most iconic buildings centuries ago.
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