Well said, I actually mentioned Aikido a couple of hours before I read your post here in response to a comment on my thread about being blocked by facebook. I was apparently blocked there for telling people to leave facebook and come to Steemit - plus also for posting about a mostly unheard of NSA whistleblower called Diane Roark - who is higher ranked than Snowden was.
I have studied state/corporate control of information and life itself for most of my life and concluded similar to you in numerous aspects - on my own social network I have a page about privacy which states the same as you here, namely that if you aren't comfortable with everyone in the world seeing what you post, then don't post it to the internet.
I FEEL that under all of this is a desire to control life (and even in some cases to be controlled). Control is a very interesting topic, since we are regularly conditioned (controlled) to think that control and self-control are GOOD - however, a basic analysis shows this to be false. Control requires both the controlled and the controllers - two entities.. For this reason 'self control' is delusion as there is only one of you. At best, self control is a fragmentation of self with one part controlling another - which is entirely unnatural.
Transparency, integrity and balance all play a part in us evolving and thriving as a collective. Balance is my own speciality and Aikido is very much about balance too. Balance is defined accurately as 'no part or aspect is overpowering any other part or aspect' - so it follows that Aikido is redirection of the energy of the other being, without even overpowering him/her - so that the energy is no longer a threat. In the context of government, our own sustained intention to reveal the government's crimes is necessary if we are to have anything approaching balance.
This is why I have closely monitored rarely heard whistleblowers for so long and why my Whistleblower series on Steemit has now reached post #32 (about Diane Roark - the NSA whistleblower).
Since Facebook (CIA / US GOV) have now effectively censored me without comment, I will take that as yet another dart from their direction which I need to deflect and I will be doing that by posting #33 in the whistleblower series about yet another NSA whistleblower.
If everyone took a week from their life to review all of the posts in this series, we would be living in a very different world in 2 weeks!
Love!