[ScottinVA]

Oh, sure...technology is improving, but societally, things are in rapid decline.

[Cronos]

It also depends on what you see

Murder rates today are at 1950s levels

And in other social aspects -- it varies - Planned parenthood was formed in 1942 and in the 1930s American physicans were conducting 800,000 abortions per year

In many other cases, thanks to the Boomer generation dying out and the more conservative Generation X taking over, things are getting better.

[Cronos]

in fact if you push things back beyond the 1950s, then societally things are better now than in the 1920s and 1930s