I am not sure if I have listened to the man you mentioned or not, the name looks familiar but if I have if has been along time ago. I will make it a point to look him up though since you have mentioned him.
The biggest problem is that we are like frogs in a cooking pot, the water started out cool and they slowly turned up the heat and we never noticed, now we are cooked and being eaten alive everyday by all the rules, laws, codes and statutes and we still think the water in the pot is the right temperature.
It goes back at two and maybe even 3 generations here were we have been in the pot, and that has everything to do with the education system phasing out civics and replacing it with government classes.