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Well, I like to remind myself that the only constant in the world is change, and that mostly, we aren't watching the world crumble, we're watching it change.
And I recognize that change is hard and that it's mostly an unpleasant process. But I also know that in aggregate, the change we've seen throughout history has been far more positive than negative by almost every metric. For example, I live every day knowing that an infection is not going to kill me, I couldn't have said that 100 years ago. As a person of color, I enjoy the amount of freedom I have, I certainly wouldn't have had that in the US 250 years ago. If you look back further, I enjoy more luxuries today than an emperor could have 1000 years ago (hell, I can eat strawberries in the winter).
The point I'm making is that in general the world is on a positive trajectory, and has been (for the most part) for all of recorded history. If you consider the context, things aren't really all that bad right now, and history suggests they'll get better.