While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
I also found being called Sir rather silly.
One's life has many compartments.
One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.