If you got in a space ship going fast enough and travel far out into space and come back you would be younger than everyone you knew, if they’re even still alive. The light you see coming from stars was emitted billions of years ago but it is occurring now in your perspective. Satellites in space orbiting Earth have to have their internal clocks adjusted daily because the time shifts relative to Earth. Time is relative. E=mc2 should set your mind at ease.
And regarding what you’re speaking about, a 1984 style future, all systems are like life. Everything is life. Birth, existence, decay, death, followed by rebirth. The universal cycle of life. Everything has to follow that pattern. Structures have to rot and die in order to be reborn. We are currently in a strong decay phase of a lot of existing structures and institutions. Be grateful for the good in your life and let the bad stuff go because what is happening has to happen and was always going to. The exact form of things in the manner they are now isn’t set in stone but the energy which is causing these things to happen now was always going to be here. It is what is.