Every subsequent generation thinks the world has gone to shit. It probably has more to do with a person's inablility to cope with the fact that everything will go on without them when they die than anything in reality.
Violent crime is actually down, and life expectancy has never been longer. Old prejudices are being shed, and we are slowly working towards euqal rights for all under the law.
The idea that the world is worse than it's ever been is just a myth propagated by those that morbidly wish armageddon would come before their eyes, like a Chrisitan waiting for their savior to come down from the heavens to smite his enemies.
Violent crime is actually down, and life expectancy has never been longer. Old prejudices are being shed, and we are slowly working towards euqal rights for all under the law.
The idea that the world is worse than it's ever been is just a myth propagated by those that morbidly wish armageddon would come before their eyes, like a Chrisitan waiting for their savior to come down from the heavens to smite his enemies.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
