How could it not be wrong to deliberately dim and dull your senses? If you don’t like the world as it is, then change it. Don’t numb yourself into apathy.
I have to say that when I told him to get out, I thought I was expressing a pretty conventional opinion. It only dawned on me later just how out of tune I was with the times.
Not that it’s a bad thing to be unfashionable. In fact it’s more or less a duty, if your mind is alive.
People have told me since – and they were only half-joking – that Harriet Harman and I were probably the only two people at the University of York in the early 1970s who didn’t smoke dope.
I know directly of several outwardly respectable figures who take drugs and let their children do the same. » | Peter Hitchens | Sunday, December 01, 2013
