At some point, in the same way you view some period in the past, people will look to right now with nostalgia and envy our lives. The world never went to shit. We just have been presented with new and modern threats. Maybe society will collapse, and people will envy us for our luxuries and free time as they fight for survival. Maybe society will progress to an unimaginably technologically advanced state and people will envy us for our simple lives and capturing some aesthetic that can only be appreciated decades after the fact. The grass is always greener on the other side. We are all blessed and cursed to live in this time period. We should focus on the things that our descendants will envy in an idolized version of our present, rather than the subversions we cannot interact with on a day-to-day basis. That isn't to promote inaction, but rather point out the risks of falling into a despair spiral rather than enjoy the good things in life we have right now.