what is happening to everyone?

What is happening right now?
Teacher friends describe fights at the school, kids who swear at teachers or the principal, assignments not completed, and an inability to intervene without parents getting upset. Why do these kids think this behaviour is okay? Why won't parents allow teachers to discipline their children?
ER doctor friends describe belligerence, patients drunk or high and not wanting help, just somewhere to stay warm and get a sandwich, leaving whenever they want, showing up again when the homeless shelter kicks them out. What led them to this point?
Stores all have those signs now that "shouting and swearing will not be tolerated." Security guards are everywhere. When did it become okay to shout and swear at people, something I witnessed during the COVID toilet paper fiasco?
A friend's fifteen-year-old daughter put up with parents yelling at her when she refereed a soccer game for eight-year-olds.
What is happening?

There's a rising sentiment of entitlement, a movement toward eliminating government, a swing towards self-preservation at all costs. Increasing racism and anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment. A switch, as another friend put it, toward individuality rather than community. What brought on this change? Was it COVID, did the social deprivation cause everyone to lose their skills of communication? Did the concept of mandatory vaccinations unleash some beast, like a Pandora's box, that was lying in wait within a segment of the population ("don't you try to control me")? Are the increased costs of housing and food creating desperation, such as one of my patients who had lost weight, citing the "food is too expensive diet?"
     The world in general feels like it is self-destructing, and we don't do much about it other than shake our heads and feel relieved it's not directly happening to us. Entire cities can burn or disappear under mudslides or get taken out by bombs, and it's like we feel a moment of horror and then move on. On the other hand, even in multicultural Canada, groups are railing against each other based on what is happening in their home countries.
     I worry for humanity. I worry on a global level. It feels like we haven't learned, like people think they want a war, a fight, whether small or large scale. I don't want to be here when that happens. I want to prevent things from worsening, but I don't know how to do so, other than listening, and being kind, and encouraging others to do the same.
     Any ideas?