Is Time Really on our Side?

I have been reading The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard for a while and have been quite honestly shocked by one of it's conjectures: what if time isn't really on our side? What if the observation that spiritual consciousness is  evolving all the time is just a mirage like everything else? It occurred to me the other day when I heard my friend discussing the conditions many people in Nigeria had to live in, that millions and perhaps even billions of people were living in conditions that had little room for spiritual development since they are fighting for life and economic and political freedom. Who says that in percentage of the human population we are now more developed today than say 1000, 10 000 or 100 000 years ago? Sad, or is it, if the assumption is correct that there is always only you with a video screen of maya projected around you.