You'se are merely attacking the symtoms; you can go to half a dozen doctors complainling of an illness (trust me I know) and get many varied responses. What you'se need to address is the cause.
The problem is the human condition and how people accept it's various guises. No social group can be free of it, save for the individual; He who must then shun the benifits of a social system, i.e, weigh up survival prospects.
Were people better off in the medieval period? Being controlled by a church under heavy government influence?
And so survaillence today is what grinds our goat; what was the major complaint of peoples of old? I'd reackon It'd be as close to their hearts as our issues today.
For questions regarding the aptness of modern social structure, or even any historical period, I would strongly recomend reading Jacques Rousseau's work 'the Social Contract':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Contract
Rather than squabling over your idealisms, I'd suggest educating yourselves on the fundamental problem.
I too get irate over our 'leaders' shenanigans, but, in oder to address and deal with them we must understand the root causes of their actions.
People from the dawn of time have had to deal with social tensions, yet merely their manifestation changes.
Indeed, even a wild dog in a pack must succumb to his own leaders wants.
Is this dubiuos order what we are comfirtable with as a species? History would suggest yes. Personally I seek greater values, but in reallity' how many anarchistict civillisations remain today, or indeed, ever thrived?
I suspect, none.