I travel quite a bit and while this is true to a large extent, I think its more important to look at communities through the circles you involve yourself in, the neighborhoods which you live or hang out in rather than the nation as one generalized whole.
I have a theory that the world doesn't ever get much better or worse, but the illusion of life does. Think back to the time we nuked 2 whole cities in Japan. Imean that kind of sht would never happen these days.. to just easily kill millions of people in seconds is the wildest sht ever.
I think some of what we are seeing and labeling as degeneracy is a rebound effect of holding women down for thousands of years and shunning certain type of people and whatnot.. I think life just works in these weird tides.. everyone has their chance to shine.. its like the seasons change constantly over the decades/centuries.. those who like the hot, have their way, and those who like the cold, have their way..
But if you look at the medical advancesin life, the technology which we take for granted, the convenience, the utility, the capabilities we have todayas humans, its impossible to say the world is getting "Worse"... I think societal things are easily fixed by going to countries that dont tolerate that nonsense. Why do you think so many people are moving to the UAE and places like Dubai?
Not to mention: back in the day, women would get sexually abused, assaulted, made to do sexual acts just to be accepted in professional places, talked down to with alot of sexist language and that was the norm.. Nowadays taht sht gets exposed and the perverts get called out/punished.. I Think as men we tend to look at alot of sht from our own perspective.. but for women, some level of liberation and equality was definitely needed.. IF it wasnt, I dont think the Universe would have steered the sails the way they are now.