It's Interesting that Bede describes his own times, in the 720s or so as "the apathy of our times" in contrast to devout monastic traditions from 630s. It seems like no matter how far back you go, someone is longing for the recent past and thinking, "What degenerate times we live in now." | https://othala.goeshard.org/library/bede/iii/chapter-5/