Random line of thinking (@hj also brought this up): We need to do a better job telling good and real stories.
On small scale, with Bitcoin and Lightning, e.g. a lot of people use LN for positive things in their lives and it's worth sharing those stories with others. I wish we would see more posts/articles/etc that tell those stories.
On large scale, most of the movies that are from future predict negative dystopian disaster where the hero beats the evil (but only "for now", for a little bit...). Why don't we see movies that have the opposite? We are etching the negative stories in the back of our heads and we are priming ourselves to make that negative future come through. Let's etch some positive stories instead...