There was no rat race coming - almost nobody was going to participate in that (a good and a bad thing, all at once). Yes, they all stepped aside to make their

There was no rat race coming - almost nobody was going to participate in that (a good and a bad thing, all at once). Yes, they all stepped aside to make their own England, their own galleries or music halls, which gave people like Don Letts a place to thrive, etc. it was a desperate reaching for something of one's own It sounds like you don't disagree...