proone!!!
<<... my life is as free as one could possibly expect in a society that protects the weak and vulnerable and prevents mob rule and war lord rule.>>
er, the Taliban got the warlords under control in Afghanistan and successfully imposed law and order - the west restored the previous chaos.
Then there is the debacle in Libya - oh, and Iraq.
Serbia was the most progressive of the newly independent countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union but was just about bombed back into the stone age by the west.
I won't go into the failed states in Africa as a result of the Europeans being removed from power too precipitously.
Has it not dawned on you that anything that has tried to coalesce into a functional, sovereign nation state since 1933 has been crushed/multicultured/economically strangled?