The world will slowly but surely gravitate towards the dystopian future depicted in Equilibrium...tis only a matter of time and the reason we won't be scared of it is because it'll be such a slow, drawn out process.
The scary thing is that that movie is less a vision of a potential future and more an analogy of what we already do as a society - popping pills to keep emotions in check, censoring art and opinion, restricting choice and seeking out and destroying anything that threatens this.
/orwellianparanoid