I too easily identified with the list, surviving them all and very more.
It does seem more then passingly strange that so much of ‘life’ is prohibited now - I’m thinking that we’ve become way too civilized with life lived by someone’s standards that we don’t even know. Just look at the way we wage war versus our enemies.
It's orchestrated. “Dumbing down America” was one of the earliest phrases that caught our ears, “PC” came along later amoung other processes, and it just kept accelerating, taking the life out of our young-soon-to-be-specially scripted adults.
...not with a bang but a whimper.