Does anyone else feel that the world, current events the whole shebang has started to roll downwards and its getting so fast we're losing control? A control tht people are maybe manipulating?

So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within a larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.
John Kennedy Toole

wow

His book is a good read if you have the time and half a brain.

Good I like a thinker and the quote resonates. Although I feel there are influences and powers that are getting ever stronger by controlling the reality or lack of that they are exposed to.

Nope. That's only the case if you are wallowing in the fear-mongering & negativity of the media and news who want you to believe exactly that: you have now power.
If you switch off all that nonsense -permanently- you'll discover an entire different world. One where more and more people are waking up, and then realising millions have already woken up 10-20 years or even longer ago.
The pandemic added millions of newly awakening souls to it. Some may have gone back into slumber now that the world has turned back to normal, but you cannot really fall asleep anymore once touched by the Light.
You cannot ever un-know. Once you know, have sensed and realised and felt it, you cannot go back.
So... there's millions and millions.
Many, however, will not awaken, or not for any time to come, and keep spreading and asking what you are asking as this group stays plugged into the old fear-based matrix.

The ones that are truly in power are a mere few. They appear to be a huge, many, but aren't. It's just that they have a huge network. But only those mere few know what's going on, none in the network have the full picture of that.

In a way you can compare it to the Matrix. Millions have unplugged from it like Neo did. And more and more have done this and more and more are doing it.
And in the end the Matrix was beaten. And that only took 1 man.