This already describes the world for the vast majority of people. These changes are just the same thing coming to a thin intellectual elite who thought they were immune.
["First time?" meme]
I can see humanity walking to its collective doom with a sense of satisfaction, like "at least/last it is happening to those other guys too".
So what? You can't see the difference between "the average person doesn't understand it" and "no one understands it"?
Bringing elitism into it for what benefit? Its more like were giving away the ability to drive our own destiny.