Can you tell me of a generation in the past 100 years that’s more moral and harder working that the previous? If not, it’s a decay, not a cycle.
The greatest generation. They saved the world during WW 2 and the cold war. Plus gave to the world one of its greatest Popes, Blessed, soon to be declared a saint, John Paul II.
I view what you have said as just an opinion. Go with the word “cycles”.