I was perusing sites listed on Yahoo! Picks this morning and came across this site: The Times they aren't a changing. The opening sentence in the Yahoo! Picks blurb reads "Ever since The New York Times opened its archives to one and all, journalist Jeremy Olshan has jubilantly mined its riches 'to prove that everything news is old.' "
I found it interesting only because this is something I ponder all the time. How many times have you heard "Society just isn't what it used to be" or "Can't trust anyone anymore, with all the pedophiles and murderers". Has society gone completely awry? Perhaps some evolution has been quite poor for our species. But there have always been those who Darwinism didn't wipe out fast enough. Has there been a rise in crime? Oh, surely. But there's also been a change in population, and the mediums have simply changed. People have been committing rape, robbery and murder since the dawn of time, it's just that there are more victims and an easier way to find them. So, while the above site really doesn't prove anything, it made me feel like I'm not the only one who ponders it. I found it an interesting read... especially the archived articles!
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