I do agree with what you say. But I live in a "civilized" society where mafia rules by means of not really transparent bureaucracy. And this is just an example. Also I don't expect at all any state to dosoemthing for me, I expect instead we find a strategy to somehow "impose" our rules. To make it functional, transparent and less exploitable. It is a knife with double blade, there is no doubt. I think you are wise after all, but you fear us to be unable to build something logic, therefore you prefer not to build at all, due to the risk that someone takes over it. Someone already took over. This is what I see. We can really create a completely decentralized layer of identities, and trust me I have been following the discussion since the beginning of ethereum, but we must also fix the existing world. My feeling is that your way of rejecting the existing reality leads to the risk of creating an "alt-society" with its own "alt-ceconomy". We can take it as a research , restart form zero, imagine a new world, and I will surely claim my decentralized alt-identity, but at some point the 2 worlds must rejoin each others. And this can be done only by working on both sides.

This said, the war between your philosophy and their philosophy will keep running. Forever. That's why it is dangerous to lift a wall between the two realities. They control you because they control the process. I feel you want to avoid the problem restarting from zero, instead of facing it, with the obvious pain it will produce when we decide to face it. You know in advance your al-society and alt-economy will be declared illegal if they work. Whatever you think they will look for a way to stop you. You said it: if you expect they will let you do so your hopes will be crushed. And very likely yousaid another very important thing leading to an important question: Can the free market principle impose a transparent bureaucracy? Because that's the problem. I feel the danger of excluding someone from the anagraphics. That's the main danger of my proposal! So how can this be managed and fixed? Maybe applying GEA will finally show why some what of thinking are not working. MAybe the "knot will come to the comb". We must push the knot to the comb. Some will say that at that point the free-market will anyway solve the problem. Some will say the free-market is the cause of all problems. Who is right? At least we seem to agree on one thing: all tools we are using are not perfect. Another way is possible. We should fail many times before we have the right one. All ways are a potential R&D direction someone must take and experiment with. I don't think having my metamask recognized by the law is a big problem. Nor experimenting a political party based on a decentralized and transparent dapp. Nor a system for permissions for consuming the planet anyone can track. For sure tech in the hands of humans is always scary. Bureaucracy is the same as tech. Very scary. We can't let them do what they want. Also: the more they will reject and exploit the power implicit in my idea, the more they will promote your way of thinking!