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A reflective article by Will Hutton looks at the reasons we are economically and morally failing: because of the 'cult of the individual', and the  ever-left-leaning liberalism that was mostly born in the 'baby boomer' generation...

There is no longer any discrimination in our embrace of cultural liberalism; it stretches into every nook and cranny of our lives – from the financial markets to sex – and sometimes with consequences none of us like. It was Howard Davies, when he ran the Financial Services Authority, who compared financiers to consenting adults; the inference was that he had no more business inquiring into their private business affairs than he would into what went on in their bedrooms. His liberalism has been proved wrong. The story of the past six decades is in many ways the story of how we threw off our shackles only to discover that we do need some constraints, even in the City. And in the bedroom? Our extreme liberal stance has seen us deluged under a tidal wave of pornography. The debate in the years ahead will not be about how to continue with our baby boomer liberalism, but over how and where we need restraint around some shared principles and rules.

I never liked Dirty Hippies, except for their music. I value personal responsibility over social largess.

And I can't stand Dirty Socialists and far-left Democrats, because they embody the 'free love-money-morality' elasticity of the Dirty Hippies.

But you already knew that...

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