The charge of privacy fetishism is illiterate because the underlying tech and protocols clearly work hence the gargantuan state machinery being deployed to desperately try and stop it - spiritual opsec demands it.
The charge is usually levied because of a misdiagnosis - there is too much cultural inertia to overcome to move people away from Megacorp Tech options to practical FOSS options that can become daily drivers.
Inertia does hold back degenracy but yeah we need some kind of spiritual defibrillator or something to get movement. But also not providing support for backward compatability is necessary if the aim is to accelerate. Otherwise the cycle keeps snaping back to the median.
This is no different than the tying the camel analogy. In the end, you do what you intuitively must but protection only arises from one place.
This state of the heart is critical in ensuring that safety doesn’t become your God.
