One of the truly terrible things about our time is how propaganda often wears the mask of science when there is really nothing of the sort beneath the facade. All too often the real dynamic is one of Solutions in search of a problem. When the problem of the moment is deemed to be of such small magnitude that the Solution seems to be inappropriate then the search will continue for another problem, but the Solution remains the same. And the strange thing about the great Solutions is that they all seem to involve giving less and less autonomy to the individual citizens.