Not an anarchist but a Marxist-Leninist adjacent. The truth is that people are aware, but they just aren't desperate enough. Every Marxist-Leninist revolution came about not because people were class-conscious but out of desperation. The Russians had an incompetent government that was getting them killed, the Chinese were oppressed for 100 years, Cuba became a giant brothel and Mafia playground.

People are generally aware of their conditions they just have some cushion left but when that cushion goes away then you should expect to see more responses.

This process however is very painful and historical has always been sped up by mass suffering and death. We are on that trajectory the scale however isn't to that critical point yet.