I am all for making things better, but every time I see the "it used to be better" argument I think you were just younger and more unaware then. People used to

I am all for making things better, but every time I see the "it used to be better" argument I think you were just younger and more unaware then. People used to gossip about many untrue things that are now more easily disprovable with a simple Google search. There were more cults in the past. Mass media loved running with shallow scientific papers (everything became low fat and high sugar for example). The National Inquirer sold way more copies than the Atlantic. The mediums are different now but the problems are still the same. Give it time and we will figure it out.