If books as a whole should teach you anything at all, it's how unbelievably self-centred and childish this worldview is.

People have literally been predicting that their generation was the "last" and "worst" since the time of the ancient Greeks.

People always keep moving forward and struggling and trying to do better. Saying that humanity as a whole is going to "Lose" what makes it great just because you yourself are particularly sad is very selfish.

Maybe the issue is that you need to remember your Milton.

The mind is its own place and can make a hell of heaven or a heaven of hell.

It's being said by Satan but it's not a lie. He's saying that he can make hell nice by "thinking it so" but in reality he's just making everywhere he goes seem shitty because that's all he can oerceive