Maybe. But also I've become a massive history nerd and I can't name a single period in the modern world without serious objective problems. There were wars and

Maybe. But also I've become a massive history nerd and I can't name a single period in the modern world without serious objective problems. There were wars and diseases and nasty politics and crises and injustices and environmental catastrophes aplenty. Our current slate is serious business, but not uniquely so. Based on the evidence available to us, what the little doomscrolling box has done is drive us crazy and actually make it harder for societies to act on these problems.