Hello Alex! We’re largely on the same wavelength here… I’ve written quite a bit on this subject over the last few years, but many ideas – on self-sufficiency, doing without state welfare systems, self-directed learning, moving away from representative democracy towards direct democracy, and so on – tend to be viewed as rather exotic and eccentric. Globally, the trend is towards a general desire for a patriarchal state that relieves the individual of all responsibility and all autonomy. Well, yes... It’s not quite how we imagined life in the future 50 years ago...