Ok.....So you killed off Religion...

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Well, let's see when I was young we did not lock our doors at night or when we went to town and other places. Today I have two Rotties that live inside my house and four outside and I lock up everything all the time, hows that for starters. School children didn't shoot each other, we never dreamed of being abducted by strangers. When a murder happened it was in the news, today they are so common place they do not always make the news. When I grew up the news reported many good things today they only have time for the bad and there is more news time now than when I grew up. The country is a much more dangerous place today than it was then.

What's increased is communication.

Do you honestly think that things like terrorism, murder, rape, burglary (etc etc) didn't happen on the same scale 10,20, 50 or even 1000 years ago?

You're statistically much more likely to live to your 100s today than in any time in history, increasing population demographics not withstanding.

I think what has increased today is paranoia, which I agree is due in part it the media portrayal of society today. However, I'd still much prefer to live today than in anytime in the past, ever.