Anyone else follow world events closely? It seems like there is more and more disasters, mostly manmade, by the day. Along with the threats of war, plagues, and general environmental decline.
I'm not trying to post one of those 'the sky is falling' threads, but if you look closely there's a lot of negative events coming at us from many different angles.
Things seem to be falling apart, and I think it has been building up to this for quite some time.
It seems that more bad things are happening nowadays then 20 or 50 years ago. It is my subjective feelings and try might be skewed. We also need to look at how the world changed in the last 50 years. Humanity became so much more connected thanks to the Internet and smart phones. Within hours we can inform now the whole world that something bad is happening, while in the past this took weeks.