Why does every generation predict the end of civilization as we know it?

This is well on its way to becoming America's new favorite pastime – people on the internet pining for the old days and predicting the fall of civilization. It's always been human nature for many people to think that their time on earth will be an especially important period in the history of the world, because so many people are self-centered and melodramatic.

If message boards and Facebook were around during the Cold War in the 1960s, when kids were having nuclear fallout drills in school, people really really would've flipped their shite.

Personally, I choose to count my blessings. I have central heat and air running up my leg to my nuts. It could rain for 8 straight days and my roof still wouldn't leak. I had cheesesteak egg rolls delivered to my front door the other day.

There has actually never been a better time to be alive.