Highly recommend Phillip Howards Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America The abdication of personal responsibility in favor of a dense thicket of laws and more recently, regulations that no one could conceivably be aware of in their entirety much less comply with sets the stage for the 'priests of power' to do what they will with us. Common sense was thrown out of the window long ago - and deliberately so - in favor of bureaucracy and procedure. That is also the death of one of the underpinnings of individual liberty.
Doesn’t all this pretty much start with “zero tolerance” and “political correctness” as early as pre-school? A background in “school administration” might look pretty good on an application for police or prison-system employment.