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A Counterculture Memoir
Simon Fairlie
Paperback
$ 19.95
“ Simon Fairlie is perhaps the most influential — and strange — eco - militant you might not have pick up of . ”—The ObserverAn unforgettable firsthand bill of how the hippie front flower in the later sixties , come out spend by the Thatcher - consumed 1980s , yet became the seedbed for progressive reform we now take for granted — and continues to urge generations of rebels and visionaries . “Fairlie has a refreshingly declaratory style : he ’s analytical , funny and self - mindful . . . His memoir has much to propose anyone interested in movement chronicle or in the futurity of knowing communities . ”—Elizabeth Royte , Food & Environment report NetworkAt a young long time , Simon Fairlie rejected the rat airstream and embarked on a Modern misstep to discover his own path . He dropped out of Cambridge University to thumb to Istanbul and cycle through India . He established a commune in France , was arrest multiple multiplication for crouch and polite disobedience , and became a lead figure in objection against the British government ’s route building programs of the 1980s and — later — in legislative battles to help multitude secure memory access to domain for low encroachment , sustainable keep .
Over the course of fifty age , we find a man ’s drive for self - adequacy , freedom , genuineness , and a deep joining to the res publica . Fairlie grow up in a halfway - class home in leafy middle England . His path had been laid out for him by his father : embarkation shoal , Oxbridge , and a life history in journalism . But everything shift when Simon ’s life hightail it headfirst into London ’s counterculture in the sixties . Finding Beat poetry , blues medicine , cannabis and anti – Vietnam War protests unlocked a powerful luxuria to be costless . or else of becoming a celebrated Fleet Street diarist like his father , Simon became a laborer , a stonemason , a farmer , a scythesman , and then a magazine editor in chief and a writer of a very different sort . InGoing to Seedhe shares the highs of his experience , alongside the awful price of his on-going search for freedom — alienation from his family , financial insecurity , and the exit of Friend and buff to the excesses and upheaval that continued through the 70s and eighty .
Part moving , free - wheeling memoir , part societal review , Going to Seedquestions the current flight of westerly “ progress”—and the explosive consumerism , growing inequality , and environmental ravaging laid bare in our everyday newsfeeds — and will resonate with anyone who wonders what the world might front like if we began to chart a radically different course of action .
“ This is a fascinating , funny and proceed record of an extraordinary life live in extraordinary fourth dimension . ”—George Monbiot
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