The 3 main things working against you

The Podcasts, talk, protests: You know everything you need to know to make change. You need no new information. Really think about the word "Protest". It's unbelievably ineffective, obviously. They could care less. You need direction action that concludes with real results.
Entertainment is spectacularly disproportionate to our living situation of increasing poverty and declining freedoms. We have hundred million dollar movies and games while we eat cake.
Racism as phenomena
Gender as phenomena

As pre-occupied as we are, you've got to find time to research the things that really matter, foundational things. You must dig deep past the fake facade of what you're being told and find real answers that solve real problems for you. You must be supremely open minded and not judge until the very, very end, until you are past exhausted of the topic, and then some.

A system can be great but it matters most what entity controls it. Who and what you are paying attention to. For example there was this great grocery store in Newhall, CA. It had the best produce and the lowest prices, everyone loved it. It was however eventually found out that a Cartel owned the grocery store and all those dollars just returned to us in blood money and drugs. Well, the same is true for Google. All those free services are building the Panopticon, removing the Human Internet. Don't be a sucker!

Real things: Declining Economy, Declining Freedom Index, Declining Health, Declining Education, Increasing Panopticon