Am I just getting older or does it feel like society is collapsing?

I’m 42 now, which probably qualifies as old to everyone younger than me. I feel like when I was a kid things generally operated efficiently and now they are falling apart. People weren’t necessarily religious, but they seem to generally have a moral standard.

Politically, my dad thought that Bill Clinton was the antichrist. In retrospect, most of his policies would make him borderline far right. Think about the crime bill. The biggest issue we had back, then was that he got a blowjob from an intern. Which seemed terrible at the time, but compared to the scandals of politicians today seems mild. We actually had a balanced budget once in the 90s. Nw politics seems like a partisan gap that will never be bridged. The actual. political positions of the individual parties seem completely
incoherent.

We have a bifurcating economy with 10% of the country headed in the one direction, and most of the rest headed in another direction. We’ve got young men without any money paying to see naked women on OnlyFans because they aren’t having actual sex with their own. Then we’ve got young men pissing away their money on sports gambling and prediction markets. We have young women who see their only way to a future as becoming an influencer and/or an online porn star. Most of them aren’t headed toward homeownership or establishing a family.

I’m not even going to get into the fatigue, fatigue culture, or the fact that fatigue culture seems to be infecting the rest of the society.

I know… CSB. But it almost seems depressing to me.