[Alberta's Child]

1. Moral/cultural degradation.

2. An increasingly complicated world where fewer and fewer people are able to cope.

3. Incessant media coverage of bullsh!t that drives up anxiety in the general public.

[DBrow]

“3. Incessant media coverage of bullsh!t that drives up anxiety in the general public. “

A media that TRIES to increase fear and anxiety to force societal and cultural change.

[EdnaMode]

Totally agree. The media’s fear mongering has wrecked havoc.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Incessant media coverage of bullsh!t that drives up anxiety in the general public.

Mentally ill people who want to be momentarily notorious play to that 24 x 7, incessant, gazillion channel news machine. Back in the 50s, you had a couple of radio stations playing music with five minutes of news highlights at the top of the hour and three TV stations with a nightly news hour at 6 pm. CNN and the 11 o'clock news had not been invented. On September 2, 1963, the CBS Evening News expanded from 15 to 30 minutes! Prior to the 1960s, the typical late-night newscast was local and lasted a mere 15 minutes.

Then on August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman changed everything.