Are we still the puppets of the estate?

Rousseau said that "Man is Free everywhere, but is Everywhere in chains."

Are we still the pawns of our administration, here in our Democracy? Are we the unwitting nails in the construction of the capitalist elitism that so plagues our existence despite our cheering it on? Are smokers nothing more than the bullets that the anti-smoking campaigns fire at the Smoking industry? Are we the puppets for the marionette masters of our fates?

Weren't we destined for better than this?

<Y!A wanted to put this question in "Theater and Acting">