Stoical irony.
Edit: Look: you can be excited by some tech advance, but no - 2022 remains part of an ongoing global disaster. The above quoted sentence is hardly manageable. The best it deserves is to be read like some twisted humour.
Which of the several dozen currently ongoing global disasters are you referring to, and, bluntly, why should we care?
Because you are living in it. (At least that.)
But what I wrote is not "that you should care" - it was that you would better avoid expressions that read naïve and possibly uselessly provocative. When somebody communicates something like "Oh sweet were the times under the iron fist", it better be for a good clear reason.
You should care about your audience - and avoid lacking respect.
Yeah, that's about what I figured it would come down to.
I normatively endorse disrespecting anyone naive, oblivious, or self-absorbed enough to think there's only one currently ongoing global disaster.
Material doesn't really matter if you don't reload and just use it for practice.
Apples to apples it looks like new brass ammo is still about 2x what it cost in 2019.
Life is good and only getting better :- Not sure where this “global disaster”, but then again I’m not a Doomer.
Is it?
If one wants to be optimistic, good; celebratory with awareness, with some maturity, well good then; but "locked in a box", no: this is public.