1. This film by BBC Omnibus (1969) about Christopher Isherwood is instructive. He talks about how happy he is England has changed to his liking. He’s also that rare man (like me): the person who likes LA.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9yteeOPl2Qg …
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3. He also talks about attitudes to homosexuality, which were already clearly liberal in 1969. One of my bugbears is that we have a sort of pseudo-reactionary popular history where everything until the last decade was Oscar Wilde-style imprisonment and rampant KKK.
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4. The past is way more liberal, in the broadest sense, than people think. And the ideology of “California Zen” is much deeper.
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