The world that we live in is truly upside down, of which, few people are generally aware of it for a lot of reasons, to wit, probably the most pertinent one is that most people have lots of responsibilities and concerns that they need to address on an everyday basis, so that their knowledge of our government's civic duty to them as well as their civic duty to government is really not something that is front and center to them. This means, that our individual right to live a life free of governmental interference, governmental tracking, and governmental oversight, has been trampled upon in recent years, as the government through the aegis of its high-technology police state has aggrandized unto itself, in return for something that they claim is safety, their need to know, see, and process everything about us, but they thereby can't divulge to its own citizens what they are up to, because by doing so, we will know for a certainty that this emperor has no clothes.
The greatness of America comes in virtually every case not from its government, nor from all its governmental agencies, but from the hard work, ingenuity, sacrifice, and dedication of its citizens. Governments are instituted amongst men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, and thereby governments are not created as something above its citizens, as something lording over its citizens, and certainly not something that isn't accountable to its citizens. Yet, today, we live in a country in which those that work in government are afforded all the very tools of their very elaborate arsenal to not only suppress their citizenry but to keep their citizens on the defensive, because the government through its endless maze of laws upon laws which it selectively uses against enemies of the State, real or imagined, in addition to its sophisticated surveillance network that knows everything about you, keeps its subjects perpetually in fear.
In truth, we no longer have a government in which the governmental employees and all its apparatus are there as public servants to serve us, to which, we, as citizens are entitled to audit, investigate, and know all that they are up to, but a government that for its own protection, has created layer upon layer of bureaucracy that even they can't figure out, and has created layer upon layer of classified, secret, and top secret documents so that the public cannot ascertain what is or isn't being done in their name, in their own country, let alone the world. On the other hand, the private citizens, have had their 4th Amendment rights to simply be left alone to be about their business, eviscerated, so that in effect, there are no private citizens in this country, anymore, whatsoever.
We now live in a world in which the private citizens are in essence, public citizens, with all of their medical, identity, nationality, employment, schooling, credit, family history, social contacts, conversations, computers, traveling, being tracked and duly noted by the government, supposedly for their own good and benefit. As for our previous public servants, they are like those Russian Matryoshka dolls, or nesting dolls, only no matter how diligent you are you won't ever get to the last Matryoshka doll, because when you get close enough you stumble into something out of Kafka's the Trial, where they know you, and you don't know anything about them, their purpose, why you are there, or what they want and you never will.
In today's world we are public citizens, monitored and surveilled by for all intents and purposes private governmental servants, who are servants not to the people, but to their ultimate masters, the military-industrial complex and the moneyed elite.