i agree with what you say, i too used to engage in macro self awareness with how life is generally trending. Nothing is different now as to how it was 5 years ago and i suspect 5 years before that and so on... i quit watching the tv, fake news, social media and even those that are classed as doomsayers by the fake news a year ago. i could give a long list of names that i used to follow from Gerald Celente through to Peter Schiff - They are most likely correct in their predictions, a little out on the timing sure...but nothing has happened. The manipulation of everyday language to remove private rights continue and people become dumber by the minute, drinking their fluoridated water and consuming false media brainwashing TV. Further removal of free speech will continue until we free thinkers become outlaws within a society that no longer accepts us. If you want to know what the future holds, watch a crappy movie called "idiocracy"...funny.
I know the movie well, and every passing day brings us closer to it. It's something to see. Apart from trying to spread a little awareness, the time is definitely here to move past it and get on with life; build something new, rather than dwelling on the past. Because you're right: years and years later, it's all "same shit, different day." It's agonizing to watch it play out .. feels like we should have moved on already. But instead of making a real go at fixing things, we re-live the same thing, over and over.