Brian, Would you accept the following restatement of your points? When we -- the collective we -- are dependent on something, we are at risk w.r.t. its denial. When we are at risk w.r.t. its denial, preventing that denial is a military concern. When something is a military concern, the vigor of concern is calibrated by some characterization of those actors who might participate in attempts to deny us that on which we depend. The world is increasingly interdependent, hence increasingly at risk w.r.t. denial of essential things. That growing interdependence is a network phenomenon, per se, hence instrumentation of all items in the network is a military goal, per se. For the individual whose mindset of tradeoff is "I want all the goodies this modern world provides" then with that comes said individual fully participating in the instrumentation complex. For the individual whose mindset of tradeoff is "I wish to be left alone" then with that comes said individual foregoing that increasing fraction of the modern world's goodies that cannot be gotten without instrumentation. None of us here should be unwise enough to describe what we are individually doing to decouple, but given the character of this list I rather suspect that we are each and severally describable much more as "Leave me alone" than as "He who dies with the most goodies wins." Back to you, --dan