You are not the first generation to live through rapid change.
My grandfather grew up on a farm with no electricity. Horse and cart, kerosene lamps. He fought in WWI, saw aeroplanes, automobiles, electricity, radio, the great depression, a few more big wars, rockets, atomic bombs, antibiotics, TV, the Moon landings, the sexual revolution, jet airliners, and computers, all in one lifetime.
I think the changes I've lived through are pretty big, but compared to people of my grandfather's era they aren't. Not even close.
Covid seems like a big deal, but compared to the 1918 flu pandemic, or to life before antibiotics, it's a blip. War on Terror? How about the Russian Revolution, the Spanish or Chinese Civil Wars, or the Holocaust? The 20th Century was a bloodbath.
Yes, things are pretty shitty right now. The people in power are corrupt and do illegal shit. Same as it ever was. Inflation and anti-immigrant sentiment? Same. When I left school in the '80s inflation was almost three times higher than now, and interest rates were 4 times higher. I was friends with Greek and Italian kids whose parents emigrated after WW2, and kids who fled Vietnam on boats, and they copped a lot of racist shit.
A while back on HN someone commented that his was the first generation to face a high likelihood of large part of the Earth becoming uninhabitable. I replied that no, my generation grew up thinking we'd all die in a nuclear war or the subsequent nuclear winter.
Anyway, all this is making feel like a ranty old man, and I'm not even old yet. The world has always been going to shit. It lurches from crisis to crisis, but never quite falls apart completely, and sometimes good things happen.