Do you feel the "Collapse of the West" sentiment, le decadent anons?
Steven Pinker praises Our World In Data and tells us it's the best time to be alive. In the meantime, highly developed countries have skyrocketing depression and anxiety rates, addictive technologies make people miserable and socially isolated, sense of meaning is being replaced with jaded nihilism, tribes are more tribal, and genders hate each other. This is not necessarily contradictory: the world may be improving as a whole, but individual experiences of Westerners may get worse.
Having said this, I still think I'm missing something important to understand the complexity of the problem and adjust my expectations. Enlighten me.