re: It feels like our civilization has been taken over by theater kids and computer geeks

Both the managers who give the orders and the men with guns who carry out the orders are not robots they are people.

People with names, addresses, and families.

I am reading a book about the Russian Gulags and how the citizens were scared to death of the managers and police because seemingly at random people were sent to the gulags for a minimum of ten years.

The Russian citizens had it wrong. They should have made the managers and police afraid to leave their houses!!!

Men with guns and managers do citizens little damage when all they do is protect their families and are afraid to leave their houses.