I think there is a lot to it and with the internet and social media it all has been amped up. Old orders have kind of fallen, old assumptions about things have died, even in basic things like where you work and how you even get hired, things once assumed like home ownership have become a lot more difficult. Change is accelerating as well, what the internet has wrought might pale in terms of what things like AI are going to do. People feel like no one cares about them, and it is easy to understand why, so much seems to be cold forces beyond their control.
Obviously the world has always been in turmoil, at any given time there were always threats and conflicts and horrors, but today they seem always in front of you, hitting you full on. A lot of people are saying that elections these days literally feel like life or death, that they never felt that not all that long ago, that the stakes feel higher (and I will note, this is across the board, people on various sides of things). One of the problems is that media, online vlogger/bloggers, and people supposed to lead manipulate these fears to their benefit. That always went on of course, but in this day and age of social media and the net, it has become even more effective a tool.
Me, I have decided to seperate myself from it as much as possible and create what little bubble of calm I can create and I am very careful about how much I expose myself to.