I am reminded by that "mindless conformity something worth sneering about" of a brilliant cartoon of which I have the original, which my late wife published when she was features editor of 'The Teacher' newspaper 35 years ago:- A pair of pupils dressed in the then foolish acme of teenage fashion are passing the door of the Staff Common Room as a staff meeting is ending. One of the group of emerging teachers - all identically clad in suits and ties, all bespectacled, all smoking pipes [this was then] and carrying briefcases - sez to a colleague-clone, 'Isn't it funny how they can never shake off the influence of their peer group?'

So - to which other but similarly conformist clone-group did Malvina Reynolds belong when she perpetrated the song? Self·righteous humourless lefties, I should say.