That idiot Kinsella I was just thinking about Richard Neville while washing dishes today, and marveling at the changes that made Playpower a hit in the 70s and unpublishable today. 
Innocence was the first word that came to mind, but naïveté was what stuck. Stevan Apter draws my attention to Corrupting the Youth, in which UNSW mathematician Jim Franklin tells how Australian philosophers left their country's young without a moral compass, citing Neville and Germaine Greer as examples. Not even my beloved teacher David Armstrong escapes. "That idiot Kinsella was absolutely right," concluded David Stove. The cover shows the famous jacaranda tree outside the Department of Traditional & Modern Philosophy at Sydney University, and brings back happier memories than this.
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