as for that kind of radicalism as safe and unthreatening to established power groups, the powers that made it harder to be a 'traveller' in the UK than any other european country sure felt threatened, as did those who wanted to build infrastructure where locals didn't want it.
likewise i'm certain that the protesters who climbed trees and refused to get down rather than have them cut to make way for some nightmare or other, felt threatened too, so it cuts both ways.

the rush to a surveillance state in england also points to the idea that certain powerful people were really terrified of losing control, imo.

could any country other than england have produced george orwell? only kafka shares that level of perception of the relationship between individual and state, that i know of.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~