The problem with email is that we've arrived at a monoculture. TLS-enabled email is pretty secure if nobody can compromise either of the two ends (or, well, the intermediaries). Since everyone uses Gmail, it's trivial to just get everyone's email, since one of the two ends is pretty much guaranteed to be there.
If we move to a system where everyone has their own mail server, or at least one mail server for a few people, that system will be much harder to snoop on.
If a system evolved where a significant proportion of communications were difficult for the security services to monitor, encryption would be criminalized and it's users vilified as unpatriotic.
Why do you care about that, we all know that because we all sin, God will all send us to hell for eternity. That hypothetical situation is much more awful than your hypothetical situation!
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The problem with email is that we've arrived at a monoculture. TLS-enabled email is pretty secure if nobody can compromise either of the two ends (or, well, the intermediaries). Since everyone uses Gmail, it's trivial to just get everyone's email, since one of the two ends is pretty much guaranteed to be there.
If we move to a system where everyone has their own mail server, or at least one mail server for a few people, that system will be much harder to snoop on.
If a system evolved where a significant proportion of communications were difficult for the security services to monitor, encryption would be criminalized and it's users vilified as unpatriotic.
Great. Let's cross that bridge when we come to it.
Why do you care about that, we all know that because we all sin, God will all send us to hell for eternity. That hypothetical situation is much more awful than your hypothetical situation!