“The counter-culture was global - or so we thought. For the first time we felt in touch with California and Paris, Poland and India and together we would change the world. Even Edinburgh would move to a more open and humane and anarchic direction. It and we would be a tonic to the nation and the very idea of 'nation' would become irrelevant. Scottish culture believed itself to be 'European' but surely it gloried in a powerful insularity too. And that was all to be moribund, this was a brave new world and we had no irony in that belief. The dystopias of Huxley and Orwell were forgotten - we now had the key to happiness. And surprisingly even now, it still seems we were doing the right thing and it was good.” HappinessEuropeEdinburghBrave New WorldCounter CultureInsularityScottish Culture Book:Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000 Source: Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000