Do you really think so much of yourself? Of your imagined shadow government?
You admit to human greed and it's consequences, yet you pretend that there is a faction immune to it. You admit to the manipulation of the masses yet you deny any poor use of it
Believing that the powers that be do not have my best interests in mind is not paranoia, it's pattern recognition. Get your head out of the clouds. When has a government, a society, a collective EVER had the ability to push forward to a brighter future without losing sight?
Society is made up of individuals. If those individuals do not grow, how can society? Where is this growth then? Look around you. People are making the same mistakes they were thousands of years ago. You call that separating the weak from the strong, I call that human nature.
On top of that, where is this shadow government you speak so fondly of? Where were they when wars broke out? Where were they when the rainforests were chopped down? What grand plan could they possibly have to free the world of human stupidity? You're not a genius, you're a naif. Always believing in the best of everyone else. Get off your high horse and go outside. See what everyone else does for once in your life.