Yes. However, the number of years people complain about societal decay is irrelevant to the question about whether it's happening or not. The Roman Empire was

Yes. However, the number of years people complain about societal decay is irrelevant to the question about whether it's happening or not. The Roman Empire was "going to hell in a handbasket" for centuries prior to 410, according to the social critics of the time. It doesn't make them wrong. Applying one's personal normalcy bias on timescales of a single lifetime to societal evolution that happens on the scales of tens of generations is rather short-sighted.