It's a testament to the media mind control that you reflexively bring up some main components of government myth. That they protect you. That you are free. That there is an intellectual elite. Consider the destruction of your environment as a threat.  You are free to act within a tiny spectrum of proscribed behavior. The intellectual elite are an impotent cheerleader for the Business Party. Zion is a museum.  A fragment of what we destroyed sold to tourists.  Peace.