A creation is only as good as its Creator, this statement of yours gives considerable doubt as to why ANYONE would follow such a Beast of Death.
What is the Peers encyclopedia of world events?
Hasn't this 'Myth' been dealt with already back with the Sumerian Gilgamesh? Obviously, according to myth (even the Judaic myth) people haven't refined as a whole, technology on the other hand has.
Of course everything is happening around you at this moment, to fool yourself into not 'seeing' them is to limit yourself by not confronting these negatives and doing something about them (big difference between RHP & LHP).
This is part of God's plan of salvation. Free will means that individuals can make their own choices. This includes setting up false religions and politics which come from individual empowerment with all the preferences, agendas and power plays we learn to understand. Everyone has the ability to take part at some level.
Any encyclopedia of world events would probably be enough to show. I must have lost the book from my library and it's name and content is a fading memory.
The end of discoveries has not been revealed yet. You have said it yourself that technology is more refined. My contention is that a biological human with the nature and mind that this reveals, is the weak link. Combined with free will, which is the ability to manifest own self life and even appearance is too fragile. Humans get sick and die.
A personal experience, a revelation, and in combination with scriptures shows that to quote scriptures " be transformed by the renewing of your mind" " Be perfect for I am perfect" and many others are required to know God. It is a case of humbling the self.
Christians talk about a rapture but it is not a word from scripture. I believe there could be something like a technology that can take people from where they stand a bit like 'Star Trek'. Also people can be regenerated from the grave. The scriptures do not relate an afterlife but rather a Here After but on an enhanced planet with no predatory influence on the biology. The bible is about resurrecting people from through out history and the potential to be immortal. There may be a technology involved.
Technology at the moment is more toward reactive force. Perhaps there is technology that doesn't use rockets, propellers, wheels and combustion to move an object. Everyone lives in gravity and knows this force. Perhaps every atom can be influenced by something like a dimensional accelerator that offsets a mass from its energy center at the point of manifestation.
This is how the earth works. Every one lives on the outside of a manifested earth that is propelled and positioned in space continuously.
There are many spiritual writings and these are primarily false. They do not take into account the whole picture and in the future they will be exposed as worthless as any culture that perpetuates a myth. A bit like Father Christmas who cannot save anybody.
I believe the Bible makes enough references to the fact it is about mental preparation to using the ultimate technology.