2 Timothy 1-5 "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here"
The things that he listed are so general but yet so specific that it has no meaning. There is no reference point.
"For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal"
Were people in his time not lovers of themselves? Were they not lovers of money? Were they not boastful? Haughty? Blasphemers? Were people in Paul's day obedient to parents? Thankful? Loyal, etc?
He would have to set that baseline for there to be comparisons of any future time.