(December 21, 2013 at 6:03 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Honestly I think part of the reason people think things are getting so much worse lately is that we're able to hear of events that we wouldn't have heard before 50-100 years ago. Things probably seem worse than we think because we're hearing about stuff happening in countries that we didn't have as close contact with until recently.People who think things are getting worse are seriously deluded about the past, have never studied it. Proportionately, there were at least as many child molesters 60 years ago as today, but it got hushed up back then. The stats are quite clear, murder and other violent crimes have been dropping in the last few decades.
As for life in earlier centuries, Dickens paints a very realistic picture of what it was like to be poor in the 19th century.
In 18th century London there were street gangs to rival anything we have today and not much in the way of policing.
And how about living somewhere that the Vikings paid a visit to in the 8th century?
The 21st century is a pretty good time to be alive.
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