Not "nowadays" in the sense that things were only rosy and great "in the old days".
Rather, this kind of thing seems to ebb and flow a bit. And right now it smells like low tide.
Rather, this kind of thing seems to ebb and flow a bit. And right now it smells like low tide.
I feel like my generation (90s) is a lot better informed than almost any parent, let alone grandparent. But maybe that's too long a scale and you rather mean low tide on the span of the past handful of years, on which I don't really have an opinion / can't really say
People are more informed than ever before.
The past looks better only because it is a distorted view from a lack of information at that time.