You know what, buddy? You are not an island. The reason you are alive is because people were able to cooperate, it is not bootlicking, its called civilization. Anti-intellectuallism such as you display is a serious problem. The idea that you are some kind of maverick who pulled hisself up by his own bootstraps is ludicrous, you probably would have died of Polio or Smallpox if not for science, government, and human beings cooperating to reach common understanding. Civilization, they call it.
Do you need to watch children die of preventable disease some more, or have sewage running through the streets before you understand how societies work, or can you merely shut off your massive ego and use your brain for two goddamn minutes? Science and government are not your enemies. We have all been conditioned to believe that shit, over the course of generations, by the giant corporate interests who are presently bleeding the value out of most world economies. The very concept of Corporate Personhood, and more specifically massive multinational corps in the fields of energy, transportation, commodities, and speculative finance (banks) are all much more likely to be things you should be angry with, or disrespectful of. Oddly enough, “business” should be your enemy, where “business” means “supply-side dominated economy”
I disrespect you, sir. Good day.