"The [human] species will never learn to co-exist if given total freedom."

[rva_jeremy]

A lot of people are saying that humanity is waking up. I will likely be pounced on for saying this, but I just don't see it. I feel most of humanity is more asleep and disconnected than ever on a real level (at least in the US), while paradoxically being more "informed" and connected than ever via the Internet and mass media. It could be that the STS powers of control are ramped up in reaction to the levels of awareness emerging in our world, but the result is still an anesthetized populace.

I agree here, but I don't necessarily see this as a completely bad sign.  The more harshly the sleep is compelled, the more artificial it feels.  A lot of the pain, frustration, and strife we see are to me signs not of deep and comfortable sleep but instead a very choppy, uncomfortable, tossing and turning sleep.  It's always darkest before the dawn, and those of Ra seem to describe polarization as often a very sudden phenomenon, especially sharp swings in polarity from one side to the other.
Waking up is almost always a personal, individual thing, and being asleep in the way we're discussing is generally experienced as a matter of conformity and going the easy, staked out route.  So I fully expect that I wouldn't be able to outwardly see mass awakening even as I'd fully expect to notice mass slumber.  It is unfortunate that one cannot really situate one's waking up experience in a socially acceptable way, which is why fora like this one are so important.