The deep net facinates me

I had no concept of the deep net until I ran across bitcoins at work on nightshift one night maybe two and a half years ago and ran into the people that know and use them. Then,  mistakenly I thought the deep net was a collection of Tor/ .onion sites.........then  recently I watched Revolution OS http://www.revolution-os.com/ on Netflix, and it mentioned that the entire deep net is larger than the clear net most people only know of...???

This is really crazy. I feel like I have been floating in an ignorant cloud my entire internet life,  (circa 1996) and that there is a whole other world out there that I could only seem to find on those lonely nights when you are really focused and awake and punch through into another rabbit hole, but......the deep net was really there all along. Why, if it is truly bigger, does 99% of America not know about deep net sites? Would people as a whole be better off to have options, to have hidden in plain sight security, to have more privacy from the data mining of the clear net? Or do most people not even want privacy and choice anymore? And if I can find these things, why have not enough other people found them to make them mainstream? 

If I wasn't paranoid enough before, I truly am now. It isn't that I have stumbled on something secret, I just feel have just stumbled further than society intended me to. I feel enlightened and behind the curve at the same time.