My point is a large group of people have been feeling "dissatisfaction and worsening conditions" for thousands of years. It's what growing up and getting older

My point is a large group of people have been feeling "dissatisfaction and worsening conditions" for thousands of years. It's what growing up and getting older feels like. You yearn for how things were in the past. It's easy to take for granted the things which got better before you knew about them and to overemphasize things which are getting worse now. There is always something, there always has been something, always will be. And always there have been people insisting that the modern problems are the real serious ones compared to the past. Doom sells. Lots of people buy it.