Ok, sorry I am distracting myself from the third part of my exegesis but look I found something to distract you too. It is taken from The Marriage of Reason and Nightmare by Theodore Dalrymple

"The British state, for its part, is able to bully and regulate at will, thanks to technology—yet it seems to carry out these actions for their own sake, not for any higher purpose. The privatization of morality is so complete that no code of conduct is generally accepted, save that you should do what you can get away with; sufficient unto the day is the pleasure thereof. Nowhere in the developed world has civilization gone so fast and so far into reverse as here, at least to the extent to which civilization is made up of the small change and amenities of life."