I don't think he sees it as negative. I think he just sees it as that's how it is. And that's what makes him sad. We hear stories of these great legends and heroes of myth and history.
But everyone today is some level of awful and evil. Or at the very least. They shit like we shit. They're no different than us.
I think he might wonder if people are really special? Or if people just happen to fall into lucky circumstances where the one good thing they did gets remembered. A simple hello it singing that gets blown up into "the single handedly saved the war!"