Quite often people exclaim that since the advent of mass media, the internet and all sorts of crap like video games and TV, the world has changed for the worse. Everyday in the news there's someone being shot down crossing the street and other times we hear about school shootings. Promptly blamed are video games, music, drugs and generally everything that has been introduced in the past 2 decades.
Many of us will be familiar with this graph. It shows the decline of violence at the same crucial moment when the electronic age began. This not only disagrees but abrasively contradicts the growing jungle that is supposedly today's world.
I've been listening to a few stories from some of my older relatives and from what's being told there were as many sexually deviant and violent wackjobs in the 60s as we hear about now. One was about a neighboring house of my grandmother in the 70s. They had a "happy family," both parents and 3 daughters. They all went through high school and college successfully and went off in to independent careers and lived wonderful albeit traumatized lives. It turns out that their father was a drug addict, rapist and repeatedly abused (in all meanings of the word) the whole family and particularly the three daughters.
There were more examples of how they (relatives) each could name off examples of people from where they grew up that didn't fit in to the whole perfect nuclear family image of the 60s and 70s. That same image is being thrown around in the same media leading current society to believe we're a powderkeg with a short fuse.
Opening this up for contribution from the forum, I'm looking for input from the older members who have been around before and after the media frenzy and baby boom era. There's no doubt that we hear about more violent crimes but from your experience, is there any difference in the world and it's people from when you were growing up through today?
Many of us will be familiar with this graph. It shows the decline of violence at the same crucial moment when the electronic age began. This not only disagrees but abrasively contradicts the growing jungle that is supposedly today's world.
I've been listening to a few stories from some of my older relatives and from what's being told there were as many sexually deviant and violent wackjobs in the 60s as we hear about now. One was about a neighboring house of my grandmother in the 70s. They had a "happy family," both parents and 3 daughters. They all went through high school and college successfully and went off in to independent careers and lived wonderful albeit traumatized lives. It turns out that their father was a drug addict, rapist and repeatedly abused (in all meanings of the word) the whole family and particularly the three daughters.
There were more examples of how they (relatives) each could name off examples of people from where they grew up that didn't fit in to the whole perfect nuclear family image of the 60s and 70s. That same image is being thrown around in the same media leading current society to believe we're a powderkeg with a short fuse.
Opening this up for contribution from the forum, I'm looking for input from the older members who have been around before and after the media frenzy and baby boom era. There's no doubt that we hear about more violent crimes but from your experience, is there any difference in the world and it's people from when you were growing up through today?
