Greetings @valued-customer and thank you kindly for the excellent mega comment. :c)
Yes - governments of the World appear to have derived the wrong message from HG Wells' 'The Time Machine' - a book where a protagonist visits a future where people have allowed themselves to grow far too dependent upon the system.
While a complete reversal does seem to be what I propose - I do believe that there remains a place and a role for some form of governance - just not the vertically-inclined structures that we have grown accustomed to.
As such - a reversal to the fork in the road where things went wrong is what I propose. And the selection of a very different kind of path where governance is a peer-to-peer rather than servant-master relationship.
You are right - it 'is' tempting to let a centralized entity to deal with things on one's behalf. It doesn't'have' to be the case for any such entity to coil around the self like a python around its prey. The more vertical the entity (public or private alike), the more likely such a shift from benefactor to tyrant or predator.
As for folks being more predisposed and accepting of such a situation - this is in no small part to the reliance of those folks upon the obligatory "education" as provided by the government - leaving out a few small yet essential founding blocks to their/our collective ability to stand upon one's own two feet - and face adversity.
I see that we understand each other quite well - and this is heartening. I'll be back to you with more pieces of the puzzle. In the meantime, I recently resteemed an interesting little thing about Waves. The poster is a smart fellow also. :c)
Thank you again. ^_^