We live in a "nanny state" governed by "nanny goats".
Boyo - you say a mouthfull. All thoughts of how to be involved in some overturning of the crippling Orwellian stranglehold we now live with, just go round and round. So, come a certain age, the hermit alternative - like Norman Lindsay at Springwood - no radio . . . no TV. . . . .. (just his cats) . . . might be the only half sane way to blot out the image of a sinking ship.