>It's a careful stepping process this journey between two opposing philosophies that sometimes appear much too similar in Aspirational 'Oneness'.
Yep - totally agree. Both have a totalitarian flavour about them - we know what's good for you and you're getting it whether you like it or not because we know more than you and we're clever and you're stupid and we're moral and you're immmoral etc etc.
As CS Lewis said:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”