You may have missed the point in time where you could pass through an airport without being treated like you were being booked into jail. Or the time when you could go out on the street without being surveyed as if you were in prison. But there was, in fact, a long time where you were not forced to show ID or submit to random checks or be scoped eyeball to asshole by cameras. I suppose you're okay with that because you're "not doing anything wrong" but that sort of proves the point that they were so successful in creating a society willing to inculcate their children into believing that such an insane degree of degradation and voyeurism by the authorities was necessary to keep them "safe". They didn't win by convincing your parents, they won by convincing your parents to teach you that you should submit.