I see you've knowledge on the subjects. I think we're feeling a normalcy bias. We don't see Mongolian hordes, dont worry about viking raids. We see houses, have jobs, some intact infrastructure, but we are disintegrating. We have every indication of a falling empire. Physical violence may have dropped in the west thankfully but the type of chaos change went from more of a masculine abusive, to a feminine abusive. How many Americans are wage slaves, how many are on antidepressants and antianxiety medications, how many drug deaths, random acts of violence? How many countries have we been bombing out of sight and mind, muslims are being organ harvested by the rich in China, Africa has loads of conflict. While we aren't seeing large physical conflicts here, believe me, the criminals and those that commit atrocities for power didn't disappear, the mob didnt all end up in jail, they all moved to our institutions and that criminal empire is collapsing the west, and like an abusive WAW, its not going peacefully. Like the narcissists they are, they are scorching earth. Good people are slowing this down, and its a little bit at a time but this is next generational warfare, covert and effective. Make your enemy destroy themselves, divide and conquer.
I am not saying that everything is rosy and that there are no problems. We have problems today, but we have always had problems. You speak about wage slaves, but wage slavery does not even compare to the horror of real slavery that was legal in this country just less than 200 years ago. And people have always been wage slaves through history. Many Roman gladiators who were granted freedom continued to fight in the arena as free men because of the money and fame. Yes, there are wars but there have always been wars in history. Every life is precious and every life lost is one too many, but compare the number of lives lost in WW2 to any of the other wars. Research the number of lives lost to famine, starvation and disease over time in the past hundred years.
Humans are not perfect and I feel that people will find something to be anxious or depressed about, even if things are good. In the first Matrix movie, there is a great dialogue by Agent Smith. He says something like "the first Matrix simulated a perfect utopian world without suffering. However, humanity did not accept this early version of the Matrix, and many of those connected died. A second prototype, based on human history, was then designed in place of the first one to add suffering"
