It's always been this bad, if not worse. It's just technology making everyone aware of all the bad things going on, making it seem like it's gotten worse.
50 years ago, the earthquake in china would have been nothing more than a small blurb, now it's been frontpage stuff for weeks.
The same is true about all the (more-or-less) minor skirmishes in africa. Without todays pervasive communications technology, we wouldn't know much about it.
With every police chase being recorded on video and every murder announced on Fox News, of course we'll hear more about the bad stuff.
Converted 07/2005.
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