[JimRed]

To be a conservative, I was told, was to be on the side of age against youth, the past against the future, authority against innovation, the "structures" against spontaneity and life.

And you believed them. They are pretty effective liars.

[newheart]

They are pretty effective liars.

They are. But then it is perfectly natural for the young to be on the side of the young. I certainly was. My own experience was less profound than Scruton's but, having been in college in the early 70s I largely fell into the counter-cultural mindset until I noticed that they really had no substitute for what they were seeking to destroy.