You are surfing around the web looking to see if things are getting better, or if things are getting worse. You find evidence that things are getting better, and things are getting worse. And things are the same too, or if not the same, there is this appearance of sameness that is probably a false appearance, because nothing is ever the same, even that happy innocuous sameness that sort of floods your senses.
And you remember that there was probably laughter and light in the Dark Ages. And there were parties too. And maybe the ages were dark, but there were those who were dazzled by the light of the stars, and there were people who were happy, and inspired, and had great sex, and they didn't really know they were living in the dark ages. And well, that's probably how it goes. You live in an age, and you don't even know the character of the age you are living in. You live, you toil, you party. And you leave it to others to remember how it all went down.
Things got better, things got worse, and things sort of seemed the same too.