This guy brings a bolt of fine cloth to his Jewish tailor and asks him to make a pair of pants. A week later he returns, but the pants aren't ready. Two weeks later he returns, but the pants aren't ready. Finally, after six weeks, the pants are ready. Nevertheless, the man can't resist a jibe at the tailor.
Every generation agrees the world is in worse shape than ever before.
I don't know. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention when I was young. Or maybe I didn't have the perspective I do now. But the world does seem to be spinning out of control, spiraling backwards towards prehistoric barbarism. Street gangs, ethnic cleansing, tribe against tribe, nation against nation.