Sawtooth theory

It seems like the world keeps getting crazier and crazier, worse and worse. But if you look back 100, 200, 300 years, things were pretty crazy then too. So I have a theory on this. I think, on a per-domain basis, things do indeed degrade. But I think there are turning points where something has degraded very far and then it rapidly recovers. And because the turning point happens so fast, we don't pay as much attention to this. So we are much more aware of the thing degrading. In our minds things get worse and worse, but in reality there is something like a sawtooth wave where a thing slowly get worse for a long time and then suddenly gets better again. Examples I'm thinking of are things like universities, wokeness, corruption of science, leniency on crime, etc. I think some of this might be rapidly correcting.