Just remember that all this started with Thatcher when she championed the 'Free Market'. I am convinced that everything is motivated by profit now and everything else has gone out of the window. Things like planning, social responsibility, civil society, reason and logic etc., etc. have all been sacrificed to the great god PROFIT and hence we get the sort of scenario described by DtG. The triumph of capitalism means that we live in a society as dogmatic and ruled by ideology as the old USSR - but, so far, you don't get sent to Siberia for criticising it - it's only a matter of time!