Oh, you captured everything I thought of saying with this single sentence.

Our entire society, the whole of life, has gradually been over-regulated by rigid ideologies, majority opinions, mainstream tastes and the ever-popular consensus.

This is the situation we find ourselves in today. This is the situation that has persisted from time immemorial. We have more conformists today like we have in the days of Eve.

We need more Scott and Fran who are willing to disrupt society's perfectly constructed rules in the right way. Not negative rebels. That's what brings about true innovative and helps humans civilization advance even better.