“The socio-economic conditions at the beginning of the Sixties in America were strikingly different from those in Britain. The so-called counterculture emerged out of widespread disillusion with the affluence and boredom of the new, emerging consumer society. In Britain, by contrast, we were more interested in getting what the Americans had than in journeying to ‘the other side’ of it. It wasn’t until the end of the Eighties (and 1989, in particular) after our own ‘economic miracle’ that our ‘Sixties’ really took place. By then, I was settling down and baby-rearing, which meant that I bloody well missed out again.”
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)