A: It feels like society is declining, am I alone in seeing it? Tons of replies: No, we see it too in X, Y, Z ways as well. B: <Specific example highlighting

A: It feels like society is declining, am I alone in seeing it? Tons of replies: No, we see it too in X, Y, Z ways as well. B: <Specific example highlighting said decline> C: The decline isn't real, people abdicating their responsibilities totally isn't a problem, life has always been shite so quit complaining Sorry, that's just what I see when you reply with: >Clean drinking water in cities isn't the default state of affairs Honestly, I'd say you are gaslighting here because you're trying to convince people that regressing from forward progress isn't a loss. Also, cities and civilization aren't the default state of affairs. There's millennia more of prehistoric time where humans lived in the unforgiving wilderness. Are you suggesting that we are not allowed complain until we're back to living nomadic lives, hunting wild game on the steppes? Like you said, anything better than that isn't the default state of affairs.