In a world where information is readily available, things seem to have gotten worse. have they? maybe it's easier to focus on the negative when its that which sells. Information is just easier to find especially when you have a newspaper in your pocket that updates every second.

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war... Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gtW-IPN2mk