I could say the rest of the planet has caught up with me. But other people could also say that society is basically sliding further into the gutter. Well, for some of us "mastering the guidelines" of daily life - discovering intercourse, drugs, rock and roll and atheism - wasn’t just a approach of whimsical discovery, it was also significant cognitive dissonance and self-loathing. She had plenty of Tory backbenchers to defeat the authorities.