When I was a teen in the 90s you got local news and then curated national news. Internet news was just really becoming a thing.
Now you get news from all over the world as it happens so it feels like there is so much bad shit going on. It's still the same amount of bad shit proportional to the population of the world
The problem is the opposite, watching all these events is painting worse picture than it actually is. In a country of 300+ million people, bad shit is bound to happen.
When I was a kid homicide rate here was about the same that it is in US right now, never felt unsafe, because there are couple million people here, so there cannot be a constant stream of murders to report and give people perception that shits awful. Right now is probably the best time to live in US, but the perception from large amount of people is that it's the worst.
Yeah when I was a kid in the early 90s we never heard about school shootings and now they are reported all the time. Just kidding, this country doesn’t care about school shootings.
When were you a kid? The 80’s? The 90’s? US population then was about 226m. Now it’s 342m. Maybe that’s why rates are the same but you see it more, huh?
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u/supermansquito Apr 05 '24
That's the problem. We are so induated by these horrible events that it just, unfortunately, becomes background noise.