Our response to the world was holistic, sensual, and without shame. The Pagans and other ancient societies held this awareness as a fundamental premise. The Celts, the ancient peoples of the European Continent were not burdened by dualism. They did not separate what belongs together. They were aware they arose from the natural world, and regarded the earth they inhabited as an embodiment of the divine.
Every generation is a new evolution in the world, entering into the existing old values.
It was inevitable that we would clash, and think differently from our parents, as will our own daughters. The eternal cycle of the world gives birth, grows and dies. Time and evolving ideas shape the changes in ideas and behaviour. Accepting those changes honours life in a fundamental way and, in so doing, we honour life itself. I grew up in a culture where post-war life was hard on everybody.