I guess it all comes down to whether you find the modern lifestyle to be a higher quality of life than the one that previous generations of Americans lived. I don't. And as someone who would like to live a traditional type of life, with moral values, intact families, and kids, the institutional and cultural conditions are far harder today than they were when the WW2 generation passed the torch.
I suppose if I wanted to bugger men in highway restrooms, then I might consider today's conditions to be higher quality.
Strange that youve ended two of your 5 post to me with such an out of the blue reference to homosexuality.
In every generation there was, are and will be people ignoring their generations faults and proclaiming the next to be going to hell in a hand basket. People often see what they want to see.