But the abundance of all kinds of media and the 24 news cycle. Cable news has really contributed to an overall sense of doom. Social media pushed that sense of doom onto younger people who in generations prior, didn't watch or care about News as much.

I don't mean doom flippantly, there are clearly no shortage of things to be concerned about, but they weren't always in your face the way they are now. Like... Police having been murdering Black folks since there have been police and people had an "excuse" not to know about it. Now though? It's much more difficult to be left in the dark.

And, I think the 80's were much worse in almost all ways. But we experience the world differently in the 2020s.