Particularly - America.
I personally have found that, I live in the past to cope. Nostalgia is my drug. It sometimes doesn’t help because all it does is that it makes me yearn and beg for things to be back to where things were. Because it warps my mind into opening time capsules whenever I watch an old show or listen to an episode of some niche radio show that long stopped producing new material.
However, it helps because, it at least reminds me that there are some things that I can revisit. If I couldn’t revisit anything, play the games I played, read the books I read, watched the movies/shows I used to, then I’d be up shit’s creek because I’d have to face the fucked up things people consider what are the ‘best that’s offered’.
Weed, psychedelics, gaming, and my least/most favorite alcohol (work in progress, it’s complicated).
If you’re upset or feel bad, just do what you can and hang on. If you make it through a year, a month, a day… thats a victory. Thats doing something. Things won’t be like this forever. Nothing lasts forever.
We don’t have to go back to the previous status quo after we weather the storm either. We can make things better for all. Don’t let the tiny box thinking people with low standards convince you otherwise.