IMVHO such sense is already flourished only without awareness. Most young people do not want to really fight nor oppress anyone else. Most people these days do want universal peace and prosperity, do prefer sharing than real competition.

Unfortunately now like in the past such people are unable to stand in the real world for long, they are easy to betray and push toward destructive paths, that's why trained people (in the more broad sense, not just in military sense, trained as Citizens instead of subjects) are feared by any government.

When things became tough people's react, badly at first in general, but when there is a calm period all defenses get dropped quickly. And a new slow destruction of conquered calm and prosperity start.

Just imaging the power of a strike: if vast majority of workers are "wealthy" enough to have a house, food and water and can stop to work for a not super-short period of time, like an entire month, a strike is always winning especially when you strike to protest against poor working/social conditions, because both companies and governments in such situations are not resilient.

Now imaging how little is possible and how little is effective a strike in an almost automated society where people live in small flat full depending from all services of a smart city: they going to starve quickly. No water, no food, no way to move (only public transportation or car sharing alike services) meanwhile no disruption of business activities since they are automated.

That's the point: being armed and trained is just one aspect of being citizen, owning a house, having a certain independence is another essential part. Without all the above there are no Citizens, just more or less, more or less formally oppressed subjects. In IT terms, since we are on HN a network of desktops, a peer to peer or at least a common decentralized service like usenet, emails etc is democracy, always depend on third party services that by nature tend to be more and more oligarch is being slave. Just see classic stocks (a paper sheet delivered to the buyer) vs digital one, classic bank accounts than actual one: theoretically, technically we can make bank transactions as a common standard (for instance the EU mandatory, only between banks, OpenBank API) and operate via owner + black signed text (XML/JSON) exchanges. No one actually do that witch means that banks do have the total control on money and their customers have exactly nothing in hand. Crypto? Since the blockchain is an ever-grown append-only "file" sooner or later there will be not enough iron to operate directly on them at home and so an exchange, typically a Big of IT one, will became mandatory by nature. Again no power to the people. And I can go forward with Google&c ban and so on.

Benefiting from cooperation and commerce is good, being forced it not. Trusting others is good, until you can verify that trust is well placed, the need of trust on contrary is a weakness.

On arms imaging a peaceful and legit protest: with an armed and trained people ALL SIDES know well that in case of abuse anyone will suffer much => all party likely choose to act peacefully under democratic rules. In case of only one side armed?