The America of Idiocracy was waaaay better than what we're going to get. I remember joking about how we were heading that way. Little did I know how quickly it would be so much worse.
Im in my 50's. I feel so bad for my parents. So many good things have happened in their lifetimes, only for their twilight years to turn into non-stop devastating disappointment and the relentless reversal of so much progress.
Im the same as you. In my 50's. My hearing is severely damaged, and my right ear whistles like a thousand sex-crazed crickets 24/7.