Nobody is taking it away from you, but as we seem to agree that ship has sailed for some deep waters, nobody is backpedaling back.

Well cheers to even bigger gap between elite who can afford good education and upbringing and cheap crappy rest. Number of scifi novels come to mind where poor semi-mindless masses are governed by 'educated' elites. I always thought how such society must have screwed up badly in the past to end up like that. Nope, road to hell is indeed paved with good intentions and small little steps which seem innocent or even beneficial on their own, in their time.

It is just crazy that people still believe in the "think of the children" narratives, or "it is for your own safety". I think these seemingly good intentions (which are not actually good intentions, just seem so) are a huge problem, and lack of resistance because if you resist, their rebuttal is "you don't want our kids to be safe?!" and so forth, appealing to emotions and shame.