I could spend all day on why The Old Guard on Netflix is hilariously bad, but I'll start with this: Charlize Theron plays an immortal warrior who is at least 2,000 years old who has grown disillusioned because the world "just keeps getting worse." Worse than ... 2000 years ago?
To her, the concept of "clean drinking water" on demand would still be an amazing novelty. The concept of women not dying in childbirth, of getting to sleep through surgery, of not dying of routine infections, all would still be relatively brand new in that time scale.
It's such a silly and insulting appeal to 2020 viewers. "Literally no one has ever had it harder than you, person who can afford all of the things required to watch streaming video on demand!" The real version of that person would marvel at the idea of "paved roads everywhere."
"The world is always getting worse" is exactly as silly as "the earth is flat" but far more destructive - every hate group you've ever encountered grew out of the same basic premise: That the world was once great but has been corrupted. They're all trying to turn back the clock.
