oh YEAH.
These ARE the good old days.
On average we live better, longer, healthier lives than any people in history and it's getting better and better as we speak.

Most people don't realize that because of the mass media. if it bleeds...it ledes and if it doesn't bleed then they'll lie about it or WORSE....they'll flat out lie. They'll make stuff up and fabricate falsehoods out of whole cloth.