Is it normal to have a feeling that the world is falling apart?

Not just being led on by the doom and gloom of the media. But looking at the goings on in the World while stepping back gives me the sense that everything is falling apart.

I mean just about every nation is either in economic trouble or on the edge and things are looking bleak and they are just holding on. War, fighting, bombing, Gov. unrest, poverty, etc are everywhere to some degree or the other.

I really do believe that everything is going down the drain...slowly but surely.