One of the great lessons of the 21st century is that "orders of magnitude less violent death or suffering" simply doesn't impress people who haven't experienced much violent death or suffering. They can buy their way out of any problems they still have, & resent having to pay to keep that privilege
Matthew DownhourThis is not exclusively a reactionary thing - lots of people are under the impression that globally we’ve stagnated since the 1970s or 1990s but mostly due to under appreciating the huge gains in Africa & Asia