It's pretty good compared to, say, 100 years ago. But is it better than, idk, 10 years ago? This is highly dependent where you live, of course. But, in the US, I can 100% say life was better a decade ago and people weren't outright rejecting intellectualism en masse.

Humans have always been stupid but today technology has made it easier for the dumbest among us to be more influential than any stupid person of any prior era. This, we are in the golden age of stupidity.

With that said, lately americans seem like a new insane kind of stupid.

New media indeed coincides with revolutions. I disagree with your final assessment. We have yet to see how this turn of new media plays out.

Good or bad is a relative. The frame of reference should be contemporary. Just because we ostensibly have technological luxuries not mean things are going well right now. Authoritarianism on another up cycle.

Yep, as long as we don't change/better ourselves on fundamental/cognitive level, the result will always be the same. Can't make the play field better if the ground rules are broken. Most systems today are shaped by excusing violence and injustice. Violence is violence, no matter what.

That wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.