The world around me is degrading? Almost everything continues to get better every year in almost every way. Average IQ'S have increased with every generation for the last 200 years. Maybe the issue isn't that the whole world around you has a problem, but that you do. What's more likely? Tens of millions of people are dumb, or you're a pessimist and a hater? It used to be that people could just said, "I don't like that music"