2023-11-12
Guy de la Bédoyère is my kind of man - Heck, he even grew up on my old stomping ground!
Reading this piece is reliving my own youth - it just needs the scent of steamed syrup pudding and custard to be overwhelming.
I have to admit that having spent much of my adult life looking forward to achievements not yet met, to be dumped back into my childhood and adolescence so unceremoniously is arresting (despite the omission of "Dixon of Dock Green"), and prompts a degree of introspection - what have I done with my life, and what was it all for?
Guy is right - in those days we had dreams. Exciting dreams. Entertaining dreams. Encouraging dreams. Dreams worth dreaming.
What dreams do our kids have now? Deadly pandemics? Climate armageddon? Gender dysphoria? Terrorism? World war 3? the Collapse of Civilisation as we know it?
What greater crime than to substitute our incoming generations' dreams with doubts and nightmares?
