>>9961I don't think any of these disprove or understand where OP is thinking.
>increasing age
Yes, average age continues to go up, but we are currently in a glut of retirement-aged citizens who are still healthy and still in the workforce. They own most of the assets, the most liquidity, and they assume an almost overwhelming share of the vote (American here, but I doubt it's much different in other advanced Western democracies). So the elderly have more power and have better health than ever, so they'll be around even longer and longer.
>increasing complexity
As human societies advance they get more complex and our current way of life is built on a complex global chain of supply with a just in time model. What you want might be simple, but how it gets to you is incredibly complicated and the cost of a human life to society has risen tremendously.
>increasing alienation
Freedom does not exclude alienation, IMO it leads to even more alienation.
>increasing comfort
yeah true
>decreasing vitality
This one I'm less sure about and it just depends on how you look at it. I suspect most people who talk about decreased vitality are speaking from a romantic or Nietzschean standpoint which is illustrative as a philosophy of life but obviously not correct. The past was not full of common Übermenschen and even the elite were far from the Übermensch that I imagine most people imagine. The drudgery of daily life and the lack of nutrition wore the average human down into physical misery, the prevailing philosophies were of servility to power and God, etc. etc. It is undeniable that the potential of the human body has never been higher, modern Olympians really are the Übermenschen that could match Achilles, even the average human can achieve incredible strength and physique through training and proper nutrition, etc etc. However, there is definitely a drain on the vitality of life that I believe is observable. For one, people are no longer self sufficient, everything in life is outsourced and your average citizen does not know anything about the world beyond their immediate drives and pleasures. Sperm rates and testosterone levels are down, whatever that means. IDK this section is too long, I hope others have more to say.
>decreasing fear
Fear might be the wrong word, but paranoia certainly fits.
>increasing awareness
I think OP is referring to global awareness. Like knowledge of the effects of war in one region on famine in the other and the effects of both of those on the consumer in our world. Not to mention the psychological awareness of global instability, real or imagined, and the awareness of the second-order effects of our lifestyle and costs it inflicts on the environment or other humans. In my own life I notice an all-consuming self awareness that leads to decision paralysis or surrender to whatever Fate has in store for me. I imagine that can be extrapolated to the broader community.
>decreasing pleasure
IDK what OP is thinking here, access to pleasure is obviously much easier and much more potent than ever before. Perhaps they're thinking that the infinite pleasure we have access to only reduces its potency when we don't have any self-control over it. IDK!