He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.
I am no longer fit for these times. We are in a new era to which I do not belong.
Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.
But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.
Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.
