Domtoni, Doug, I do not agree with that!
The World in general is not getting worse, it has been and will continue to get better, much better!
The problem today is with perception. We think the world is falling apart because we keep hearing that it is, from folks with an agenda.
There are now so many places to get information, and a percentage if these "news" sevices spend much of their time with the "sky is falling" retoric.
The Internet and Cable TV have given these fringe information "services" a much higher profile.
In the 1950s' & 1960s' waco groups with the "sky is falling" mentality were small and for the most part got their message out by passing out "pamphlets" door to door.
The John Birch Society is a good example. They too felt that there was a large conspiracy bent on destroying our way of life. I remember them comming to the door and trying to scare us with their pamphlets. It was all crap then and history has proven that out. Hows the great Comunist takeover of the world going? Has that nasty Fluoride got us yet? Was Eisenhour really a Comunist?
Today, these folks have Cable TV shows, even a Network!!!!
****THE SKY IS NOT FALLING*****
The standard of living in the US and the world is much much better than in the 1950s'
We pay less in taxes than when Reagon was President!
There is considerably less poverty everywhere!
More and more people have access to clean water, food and medical care!
The violent crime rate and murder rate is way down!
Sexual abuse is no longer covered up!
World wide education and literacy rates are way up!
Even political uprisings throughout the world are much more peacefull and much more likely to succeed!
Look at Egypt, the protesters went through ***metal detectors*** and the military was a calming force! Would that have happened in the 1950s'?
The Soviet Union was taken down in a relatively peaceful way, would that have happened in the 1950s"'?
Even right now, the top of the news is talk about a teachers Union in Wisconsin.......run for your lives!
Our biggest fear is Islamic Terrorists? Give me a break! For the most part these folks cant even light their underware on fire! How does this fear compare to the USSR, Communist China, Hitler, Imperial Japan and the Mongal hords?
Even in this time of economic down turn, every morning 9 out of 10 folks who want to work, get up each morning and go to work!
If you stop listening to the SKY IS FALLING RETORIC and just look around you will see that the world is currently in much better shape than at any time and will continue to get better!!!!