Its difficult to have an objective view about this. For starters we must at least define what timescales we are talking about and which region or social-economic system.
Talking about the so-called western world and a generational experience in my mind there is no doubt there is a huge mismatch of people's expectations versus their creaking and failing reality that is what creates this sense of falling apart.
What is falling apart is a tower of falsehoods. Very fundamental ones: About where the energy and the food is coming from. About where cheap stuff is manufactured. The inability of consumption and money to fill in destroyed social bonds. About the fitness of corporate structures and regulation. Political corruption and skyrocketing hypocricy and deceit.
So its in reality a mental / moral decline and it is entirely self-inflicted. Objectively none of that should be happening.
What is fascinating is that the mechanisms to reverse that dynamic are not readily available. Religions and political revolutions are discredited so we are left seething with nowhere to go.
Talking about the so-called western world and a generational experience in my mind there is no doubt there is a huge mismatch of people's expectations versus their creaking and failing reality that is what creates this sense of falling apart.
What is falling apart is a tower of falsehoods. Very fundamental ones: About where the energy and the food is coming from. About where cheap stuff is manufactured. The inability of consumption and money to fill in destroyed social bonds. About the fitness of corporate structures and regulation. Political corruption and skyrocketing hypocricy and deceit.
So its in reality a mental / moral decline and it is entirely self-inflicted. Objectively none of that should be happening.
What is fascinating is that the mechanisms to reverse that dynamic are not readily available. Religions and political revolutions are discredited so we are left seething with nowhere to go.