I think you might step back and consider the broader psychology.

Our mental functions evolved out of dealing with the problems in life, not basking in the pleasures.

Things might be 95% going right, but it's still that snake in the grass that can kill you. So it is basic nature to obsess over what is wrong. Yet we equally ignore much of what is going wrong, because it doesn't affect us directly.

The simple fact is, the larger the crowd, the lower the common denominators, so there is a natural tendency to focus on what gets the most attention of the most people. Which is why religions tend to be simple ideas for simple minds. Consider sports teams tend to be similar attractors.

I'm not trying to be cynical, so much as pointing out the realities. Much of culture tends to be patching the tears in the previous patches, going back to the dawn of civilization.

When we were mostly tribal societies, status would be a function of what we added, but now, with nations of millions and billions of people, it's more a function of what we can extract.

In evolutionary terms, that 3000 years is just an eye blink.

Consider that democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures, if you want a hint of just how muddled society really is.

https://johnbrodixmerrymanjr.medium.com/a-stroll-past-the-overton-window-14796a3cfc4e