Yeah, everyone has a different style and every nation has a different breed of culture. I mean for USA, the "best" nation to live in, so much so that they have immigration as a political issue, they still do not have healthcare. While there could be great other things, we are seeing healthcare suck, and some people may not prefer to go there just because of this.
Or for example France, immigration issue, people who are not accustomed to culture there, creating issues. Every nation has their own problems, their own culture, their own ways of doing things. None of us are "doomed" like OP mentions, we are doing fine, sure it's not a great life, but compared to 100 years ago or more, we are doing better, and we should be happy.
That's a good way to summarize it, we surely living a better life in compared to 100 years ago, like we have Auto Vehicles, smartphones, AI, blockchain, digitalization, and many other things, but you know what? I have seen some people (like most of them are old) say this era is the worst thing era they have seen, they say the young generation is using phones and causing themselves many health problems, while actually it's a good point and it's common in almost every country.
We had many things back that caused the young generation health problems, and in today's words, we still have those things and more new things. it's just a cycle, and in this cycle to live a good life (not worse at least), we have to discipline ourselves and learn new things instead of wasting time. Solve real problems and should be creative not just mis-using and promoting things that are really irrelevant.