is generally a precursor (or post-cursor) to an expression of dissonance.
The world as it is does not fit the world as I understand it should be, which is often based on an idealized picture of what it has been.
The dissonance is the belief that it's worse now.
Of course there are cases where this belief is undeniably true. We're not referring to those instances.
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Grammatical aside: Should post-cursor be hyphenated? Should precursor? Well, one could argue that in the latter case the answer is "no", while in the former it is "yes" because the former isn't a word.
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