Peter Hitchens describes the lust for perpetual youth which still afflicts so many in the West.
Behind the fear of submission lies a whole other set of things that my generation did not wish to acknowledge, the thing we fear perhaps most of all, of following our parents into conformity and suburban living, becoming parents ourselves, mowing lawns, polishing shoes, washing the car. . . .
It was unimaginable that we, the superior and liberated generation, should be trapped in this banality. The very word "suburb" evoked a mixture of apprehension and scorn. Why did we fear this fate so much? Perhaps it was because they brought us up too kindly, convinced in the post-war age that we should not endure the privation, danger and strict discipline they had to put up with, so we turned arrogant. I certainly did.
