It's quite disturbing just how accurate that film was in its prescience of the world today. Only a matter of time before some dolt on the street sees my visible consternation and asks me what my boggle is.
I'm not optimistic, which is why I believe it will take something beyond humanity to help us out of this rut. Look at the 1960's and how that social revolution and momentum was quickly co-opted by the establishment with the use of psychedelics and music. It's still going on today too, this social engineering of the disillusioned youth and guiding them straight back into the pen. All these false saviour figures e.g. Peterson, and yet people still can't see it.
It's no good destroying the old wisdom and failing to replace it with something better, which is what happened in the 60's. The ruling class have a strategic advantage, and experience, on circumventing rising tides of social momentum. Even at a base level of pure people power the military themselves are experts at psychological warfare/manipulating entire nations in a certain direction. But at a spiritual level the majority of people have absolutely no conception of what is possible and the forces involved, and the very few who do have no interest in trying to play God like the black magicians in the Vatican etc. This is why we don't see any white magicians stepping up and trying to shepherd the masses, and why it really will take a natural event to do it.
We need to get to the next plateau of human evolution, basically. And that requires a change of being, which is not something that can be forced upon people. We the people can certainly destroy a lot of the corrupt institutions and structures, we do have that power, but what are we going to replace it with when people still don't understand their own psychology and will just inevitably end up recreating the very same evils again.