This is and the short article you linked to your analogy is like a crash course on those intending to be cowboys and cowgirls. Great article by the way.
It's time that we start to properly understand how we can totally bypass government and banking through privacy laws and rules. By going through public exchanges, we are sticking ourselves right into government. As a possible alternative, consider BISQ and BISQ 2.
What other alternatives might there be to using a public exchange? How can we turn media apps - like Telegram - into private Bitcoin transfer places that might 'push' Bitcoin into private use among a lot more people?
The best way I think to totally bypass government and banking through privacy laws and rules is through decentralization as right mentioned which provides censorship resistance. It is one way of taking power away from government and banking that wants to keep track of our activities.
Another way to totally bypass government and banking through privacy laws and rules is through running a Bitcoin node. The advantages of setting up and running a
bitcoin node are numerous. When you run your own bitcoin node, you are able to very transactions on your own without consulting with a third party service that could be working hand in hand with the government.
The same is what applies to the privacy you get when you set up your own bitcoin node which protects basically prevents your transactions history from being disclosed to again third-party services which works with the government.