[aquila48]

You mean there weren’t laws back then that you had to obey?

And how exactly does a “citizenry”, that is a “collective”, think for itself.

The whole article is predicated on mushful thinking masquering as profound thought.

[familyop]

"You mean there weren’t laws back then that you had to obey?"

No. I said that there was "a 'citizenry' that 'thought for itself.'" There still is. It appears, though, that you haven't realized that, yet.

"And how exactly does a 'citizenry', that is a 'collective', think for itself."

That's a fallacy. Any group meeting for a common purpose is a collective, including those who are trying to impose their idiotic wishes for their imagined global utopia and their unhealthy social practices on the rest of us.