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....are we getting too much bad information and news? Or is news being disseminated too efficiently throughout the world nowadays?
Maybe I was naive and not paying attention growing up in the 70s and 80s but I don't remember things being this gloomy, at least for the US:
economic gloom
environmental doom
terrorism
bio-weapons (via viruses and vaccines)
school shootings
children murdering children
kidnappings and rapes
increasing rates of depression and mental health issues
Perhaps people who grew up in the 50's could tell me and give me a sense of objectivity. Are things getting worse?
....are we getting too much bad information and news? Or is news being disseminated too efficiently throughout the world nowadays?
Maybe I was naive and not paying attention growing up in the 70s and 80s but I don't remember things being this gloomy, at least for the US:
economic gloom
environmental doom
terrorism
bio-weapons (via viruses and vaccines)
school shootings
children murdering children
kidnappings and rapes
increasing rates of depression and mental health issues
Perhaps people who grew up in the 50's could tell me and give me a sense of objectivity. Are things getting worse?
Your answer is 24/7 TV which wasn't in existence back then.
....are we getting too much bad information and news? Or is news being disseminated too efficiently throughout the world nowadays?
Maybe I was naive and not paying attention growing up in the 70s and 80s but I don't remember things being this gloomy, at least for the US:
economic gloom
environmental doom
terrorism
bio-weapons (via viruses and vaccines)
school shootings
children murdering children
kidnappings and rapes
increasing rates of depression and mental health issues
Perhaps people who grew up in the 50's could tell me and give me a sense of objectivity. Are things getting worse?
No one in the 50's could imagine the barbarism of today's world.
You forgot to mention AIDS virus and West Nile and Bird Flue and Swine Flue. etc.
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Originally Posted by aqua0
....are we getting too much bad information and news? Or is news being disseminated too efficiently throughout the world nowadays?
Maybe I was naive and not paying attention growing up in the 70s and 80s but I don't remember things being this gloomy, at least for the US:
economic gloom
environmental doom
terrorism
bio-weapons (via viruses and vaccines)
school shootings
children murdering children
kidnappings and rapes
increasing rates of depression and mental health issues
Perhaps people who grew up in the 50's could tell me and give me a sense of objectivity. Are things getting worse?
No one in the 50's could imagine the barbarism of today's world.
I think that many of us knew about that barbarism from the Korean War. Also, there was plenty of that very thing during the days of the 2nd World War. China was very barbarically treated by Japan as were all those people in the islands of the Pacific and other parts of Asia. I don't think many today would be glad to see the plain barbarism of the Americans using flame throwers to drive Japanese soldiers out of caves on some of those islands. In fact, if our people had been able to see 24/7 kind of reporting about the outright barbarism of both the Japanese and the Americans on some of those islands I am sure they would have forced us out of that theater before the war ended.
In speaking of barbarism, how about the use of the nuclear weapons on Japan? I was never against that but I was only 12 years old then and didn't see those bombs as so bad as long as they weren't used on the US. I still think it was the thing to do and have always respected Harry Truman for what he did there and for going to Korea before the UN had time to debate going as thoroughly as they did in the end.
Do you not know about the barbarism of the Catholics and the Muslims as they fought for territory and said it was religious? Barbarism has always been involved in warfare and always will be.
With 24/7 TV at any of the times I mentioned the people on both sides would have seen things they never did really know about until it was too late. Yep, it is TV and of the 24/7 variety. I guess Ted Turner and the others are to blame.
Those diseases are "amatures" compared the old standby malaria - which STILL infects 350-500 MILLION people a year - and KILLS roughly a MILLION.
Some things never seem to change.
Ken
We were well along with the destruction of the mosquitoes back in the 50s and then the environmentalists got involved. We must kill the carriers if we are to eradicate malaria.
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