[helboi4]

Being public school educated and coming from the sort of family that implies - one of corrupt and disproportionate power - definitely makes your story much less inspiring. That's a lot of cultural capital, connections and financial support that most people can't dream of. Really undermines the whole life lesson about the power of counter culture.

[rsynnott]

I'm not sure I'd call the story inspiring, but it's certainly _interesting_. Public school or no public school, it is very unusual for someone to change a country's culture so dramatically, seemingly largely by accident (or at least you don't get the impression from the article that he _set out_ to change the mainstream culture).

[15457345234]

> undermines the whole life lesson about the power of counter culture

The big 'life lesson' you learn if you study counterculture is that pretty much every big counterculture figure was a 'trustafarian' or from - at the very least - a tidy upper-ish middle class family.