I know you don't mean this advice to be personal or offensive, but your assumptions about me are wrong, and so you're starting this conversation with me on a slightly weird footing, and I don't really know how to respond.

We may be more alike in experience and opinion than you realise :-) just start by treating me as an equal, and we can have a fruitful conversation about this stuff. I can probably learn a lot from you, and you from me.