Quote Originally Posted by TheLastDays View Post
Alright, so who is "the state"? I thought that's the people...
The state is the people. At least the representative democracy is.

The voter, who is supposed to decide the "future of the land" doesn't know what he needs to know to even make informed decisions.
The average voter is a moron who shouldn't be trusted with a safety scissors, let alone something important.

And if I don't need to know everything the CIA does then why in the world are they allowed to know everything I do?
Because they're the CIA. The state has allowed them to do that.