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To move off from the street for a moment...
Computer Games.
Do we, as a nation, not seek to live off and thrive from the automatic profit incentive in accommodating the perceived trend you identify Jan?
There is little to profit from, for those who see little worth in doing anything other than make a fast-buck, in playing happily outside. Except, perhaps, the licensing of river angling.
Adventure playgrounds are seen as a drain on tight resources. Not long ago it was mooted that Public Parks charge users for the amenity.
This, to my mind, is the fundamental error in our 'public thinking'. Politicians see themselves best placed to be nothing but intermediaries between the glorious wealth-syphoners and we, totally bothersome, citizenry.
We, as a nation, seem now to seek to make nothing but money. This is the sole string to the Political Bow these days;Blue or Red.