I would agree with this statement. Many wish to believe that their struggles are far more severe than their ancestors. I have more reasons than most to believe this, but I know it so far from the truth, on so many levels. Does this mean that mine don’t matter, or that we can’t work to make these better, of course not.
Discussion
I think I'm pretty open-eyed about the challenges we face. I talk about them all the time. But I'm allergic to notions of "everything is so fucked, we need to burn our institutions to the ground and start over." I just get off the bus at that point, because I perceive extreme risks to freedom, liberty and peace if that were to transpire.
Many people are convinced that tools like bitcoin mean that none of these negative outcomes will come to pass, so they're sanguine about the idea of a catastrophic collapse of all of our political institutions. But I think this is silly at best, and dangerous at worst.
A desperate, starving bear will eat its young. History has shown us that a desperate group of men, will do far worse things than a bear.
I think parents will always organise institutions because they are a requisite for keeping children safe.
Anarchists are generally teenagers and young adults, and people soon grow out of this once they consider their own children living in a world with malevolent actors.
The first social problem to solve is malevolence.