I am a hippy

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. This is an illusion, and one should recognise it as such, but one ought also to stick to one's own world-view, even at the price of seeming old-fashioned: for that world-view springs out of experiences that the younger generation has not had, and to abandon it is to kill one's intellectual roots.”
George Orwell

My world view is a rejection of much of my generation's. I prefer in many respects the views held before 1945 or 1914.


Though I quickly leant to despise the decade into which I was thrust at birth I am a very 1960s person, rejecting the rat race, materialism, conformity, wanting to find myself.


I am in fact a hippy.

So was my hero, Pope Benedict XVI.

Though looking back materialism conformity and the cult of celebrities were the main characteristics of that baleful era.

I was right though to hate the architecture, politics, music, clothes and above all the man who for me aged 3 summed it up, Simon Dee, who is now only remembered for having been forgotten.