Yours may scale with more 'Relativity' than my points. Am not oblivious to this POV. Just un-conviced, thus far.
I sincerely hope that your perspective is the saner one; in 'normal' times it would win the Sky-is-Falling rebuttal with ease.
It remains quite unclear--just Now--if we shall regain 'normality' soon, or at all, in the foreseeable: to test either focus.
(There are no Players (which I can 'see' on the stage)--seemingly capable of genuine guidance? next: either.)

Compared with ... the seeming-insoluble problems of human cupidity, those enhanced via the effete Regulatory Quality of existing laws re banking
(thus re: CCs, Derivatives, multi-national Corporate gamesmanship; summarized as 'the hegemony of the minuscule minority'--currently governing the millions.)
Compared with That enigma? then:

The mere regulation/emasculation? of the Spooks--is much simpler to contemplate, even to conjure some finer-dimensions of the chains.
While not a trivial design-prolem: it is, at least, realizable via mere logic, supported by some decent Reasoning.

Is 'NSA' today, thus ~the Tar-baby, deflecting needed Attention-away-from the more intractable, yet root-causes of our largest Discontents?
(Thou sorta-Sayest)

Maybe So: I give you that possibility; few of us can handle more that a handful of cognitive-dissonances
--especially amidst a premeditated Velvet-curtain of intentional-Noise, generated by the most execrable players we have yet spawned.
(It is also inescapable that, we each/all have been influenced by the most imaginative portrayals of Dystopian futures.. which literature can conjure.)

Fortunately though: neither of us has inherited the mind-stultifying Certainty! gene ;^>
..One fervently hopes.
Shall we call these exercises, then: an amicable Draw? for the nonce.
(I shan't conclude that you are any-more prone to.. missing some seminal Next datum? than am I.)

What we Know-fershure, is IMO: 'refactoring the code' of .. umm Ethics, Fairness, Community-preserving? (within the already-Gang-Raped 'concepts of Our Origins' ??)
Shall be massively harder to move-towards, than: demoting a few generals in the CIA, NSA; never-mind!
attending to reform of USSC, Congress, Executive (and the de-fanging of Ayatollahs-amongst-us.)


Carrion.