Just look at them. Nixon, Ford, Carter. Reagan, Bush, Clinton. Sort of takes your breath away. I'm just getting started.
Nobody's really happy with that lot.
That's too easy, and gets us nowhere. Think of it like this. Most every period in history sees itself as the cat's pajamas, a glorious time to be alive. And we can also see that not every age is golden, not every age is teeming with Jeffersons and Washingtons, Bachs and Shakespeares, Platos and Sophocleses, Lao-Tze's and Gandhi's. Whether history is cyclical or circular, cyclonic or chaotic, our experience of it is that change is the only constant.