For me, I can't understand time as a line, something that can be altered into a new dimension, like in the movie back to the future.
It is all the things happening at the same time, you just need to step outside of it to see.
From what you said later you think the hive mind is an artificial thing, but do you believe in an organic hive mind?
I believe that they try to control exactly this good nature (have faith in humanity), where the hive mind goes, what do we need and what do we want.
The only way out of this control is to awake to reality.