@jeffjarvis Sorry privacy invading data is not exactly about making an enlightened society happy.
Although many have opinioned, that the GDR's Stasi would have reached continuous new levels of happiness with the level of data collection and privacy invasion that the US surveillance capitalism practices.
But then the GDR was as a huge open-air prison.
Now don't let me get started about US news (IMHO, you basically don't have news, you have news entertainment).