I repeat ,we were the generation who left for our children ,a society devoid of idealism..founded on greed...and kept alive by spin and deception....Even my own family who wre not deprived in my opinion, now see the accumulation of wealth as the main aim in life

The people I seem to know just don't fit that profile. There are plenty who do, and for one reason or another that seems to be sold to us as how it is, probably because, for the people who tell us about ourselves in the media it may well tend to be true. And it sells papers of course.

But as always, the spotlight shines on just one part of the stage, and only shows a fraction of what is actually happening, and not necessarily the most significant portion.

To a very considerable degree (by no means wholly) the folkmusic subculture is permeated by opposite values to those akenaton picked out there. One way and another I think that a lot of people round the Mudcat are engaged in building a counterculture with roots and branches, and it can undermine that despairing and destructive type of drug culture which is the underside of a society where all that matters is money and power.