i think
there was probably quite a lot to be said for a pop larkin style countrysidelife in the 50s/60s. sunshine, no need to lock the doors, everyone knowing everybody else, married at 20, boatload of happy children by 25....

of course it's hugely hypocritical given that i couldn't survive without my GHDs and chanel cosmetics and mulberry handbags and laboutin shoes and pubs and bars and sports car. i like teh stuff, me. but that's because i enjoy the best things about modern life without the majority of the worse things about the world today touching me.

i wonder if a lot of it is down to the media. things like child abductions, for example, were they as prolific but nobody knew about them? or have they increased massively?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 30 Jul 2008, 16:38, Reply)