A rant from "the Woods".
It is too late to go back from where we came from.
We are awake and no matter how much someone else will try to bring the mood down or bring in "poopy vibes", do not let it change your mission.
Mark Passio once said "it is the difference between nescience and ignorance".
-Nescience is a lack of knowledge ie we were not taught or never learned.
-Ignorance, we had knowledge of something but ignored it and acted against the info.
Today we know the world we left behind, the friends, the family, but we must push onward with what we know. To ignore it, would mean we are no longer willing to adapt to the evolving world. I will not go back (to sleep) or the way I was living. We as a group have gone too far. We are past the point of no return.
If someone says they do not see anything happening, it is because they have become stagnant in their environment and not changing the things they can.
Talk to people in line at the store.
Talk with neighbors.
Numquam

The one thing for sure that has definitely "happened" is that which you have pointed out - most humans either know or sense that our world is changing, and not slowly and imperceptibly. Which leads to the logical conclusion that all this change will bring about a new version of things, good, bad, or indifferent.