I don't want to believe, that the world is rapidly being corrupted, but it is.
Freedom and opportunity?
Opportunity might be true in some areas (particularly IT), but not in other areas. Just because you think you are king, you are not!
Freedom, no, not at all. Democracy has brought much freedom to the people and after the 2nd WW freedom lived up to it's maximum, it seems to me. But in the last decades it declined rapidly.
Do you mean, freedom in Iraq? Or in Afghanistan or other Arabian countries? Think twice! There might be some countries, yes, but they are far away from being real free.
Freedom in western countries? Europe?? The US???
Think again! Just think!