But times were different then. There were characters, you see, and there wasn’t the same expectation of conformity. We think that they were stuffy. We think that we are free of all that. But the truth of the matter is that we are just as conformist as they were. We delude ourselves if we think we are free – all that has happened is that the nature of the constraints has changed – the diktats are different, and issued by a different set of diktat-issuers. We have a hegemony of attitudes just as they did in the 1920s and 30s.
