So, take it for what you will, but, I recently had an «insight» where I was in a scenario where I was visiting a kind of a village somewhere up in the mountains. How-ever, even though «time» had already «passed» for me, when I returned to the village each time, the villagers seemed to be kind of «stuck» in a «time-loop» where, each time, it was almost like it was the first time they saw me.
My interpretation of this is that the Earth has been kind of a similar situation, but, simultaneously, there are certain things that can be done in order to «break them free» out of that «time-loop» but, the more they dogmatically insist and cling onto the idea that «time» is solely a «linear» function, the harder it is to get them out of their time-loop-prison; this is why it's such a «psychological» operation.
Unless the «psychology from within» can change, the villagers won't have an inkling of being able to figure out how one group has managed to «compress time» whilst the other group is doing everything it can to prevent any sort of «paradigm-shift» from occuring which would allow for the prison-break; it's all about the information-control. I have figured out and now mention this «organically» from within these «psychological-prison-system-walls» and it's quite the «mental-fight» alright.
The earth-world is something like the time-loop-village where on the one hand, one «faction» (or group of them) that knows about said «village» is trying to «free» the «villagers» from said time-loop, whilst the «controllers» are the other «faction» (or group of them) wants to keep the villagers enslaved and «trapped» within such a «time-loop-system» which requires a great deal of information-control...