60s failings outlined in YP Letters.

From: Roger Crossley, Fall View, Silkstone, Barnsley.
GOOD for Richard Heller. It is about time that someone spoke up about the failures of the 1960s. His diatribe in his article (Yorkshire Post, November 20) was exhausting, but he is right to call to account the ineptitudes of that era. At that time, but I would argue even more so in the 1970s, the media, unions and education, were dominated by left wing pseudo intellectuals whose philosophies were usually fuelled by an unpleasant undercurrent of intimidation, which suffocated discussion and rationality. Embedded in these areas were people who saw themselves as always right, and for millions of people at that time, it was safer and more comfortable to appear to be with them than against them, as is the demand of all bullies. And where are they now, these radical free thinkers for the people? They're mostly tucked up in their cosy middle class lives, having walked away from the responsibility for, and wreckage caused by them during that time. They will be living lives now that they mocked and derided in their youth, and won't even recognise, even less, understand or admit their culpability.