The power no longer lies with the people, as they are dependent on drugs and government hand outs. The world's most powerful military, the Five Eyes Alliance, is not there to keep the peace, but to allow the ruling dynasties to keep all the pieces.
Really? How many people are drug addicts? How many of these drug addicts care to vote for their leaders or do anything significant for the economy, invest, invent things and so on?
The world isn't such a dark place. If you focus only on the bad things and spend your whole life living in a poor neighbourhood it's easy to lose the connection with reality and think that all people are poor and on drugs.
Many people talk about crysis but it's just words. I don't see it happening yet. In fact all the people I know earn more today than they were earning 10 years ago and are able to afford better life.