You may really like a book named _Twilight of the Elites_ by Chris Hayes [1]. It touches on much of what you are disappointed with.
The short summary on amazon is pretty good:
Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one
institution after another—from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church
to Major League Baseball—imploded under the weight of corruption and
incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, the social contract between
ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
I think this touches on many of the things you find disturbing about recently authored scifi. But when you discover that the holier-than-thou Catholic church is, practically speaking, a kiddie raping ring with knowledge up and down the hierarchy including the current pope (who hid a priest who molested TWO HUNDRED children in northern wisconsin and provided him with further access to children, with not one peep to law enforcement or the communities he hid his rapist in); or you discover wall street was issuing no-doc loans to anyone with a pulse, selling them, then betting against them; or that the cia was at minimum complicit but more likely actively aided in selling crack cocaine in our inner cities to fund their war-crimes committing guerrilla wars in Nicaragua after specifically being forbidden by congress from aiding them (read about operation dark star); or read about what Nixon got up to... it definitely shatters belief and trust in our institutions. How does a society recover from that? I'm really not sure.
The short summary on amazon is pretty good:
I think this touches on many of the things you find disturbing about recently authored scifi. But when you discover that the holier-than-thou Catholic church is, practically speaking, a kiddie raping ring with knowledge up and down the hierarchy including the current pope (who hid a priest who molested TWO HUNDRED children in northern wisconsin and provided him with further access to children, with not one peep to law enforcement or the communities he hid his rapist in); or you discover wall street was issuing no-doc loans to anyone with a pulse, selling them, then betting against them; or that the cia was at minimum complicit but more likely actively aided in selling crack cocaine in our inner cities to fund their war-crimes committing guerrilla wars in Nicaragua after specifically being forbidden by congress from aiding them (read about operation dark star); or read about what Nixon got up to... it definitely shatters belief and trust in our institutions. How does a society recover from that? I'm really not sure.[1] http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Elites-America-After-Meritocr...