Is this the most f**ed up the world has been in years?

eviltimeban · 24-07-2014 09:07AM #1

*edit: recent years.

Syria (ongoing).

Girls gang raped and killed in India, and kidnapped in Nigeria.

MH370 goes missing (presumed crashed).

Gaza conflict.

MH17 shot down.

Taipei plane crash yesterday.

Chance The Rapper · 24-07-2014 09:09AM

I'd say the middle ages were worse

PG4000 · 24-07-2014 09:10AM

You forgot to mention Garth Brooks.

MagicIRL · 24-07-2014 09:11AM

Isn't there some study that proves the world is getting progressively better as time goes on?

Macavity. · 24-07-2014 09:11AM

Not even close.

24-07-2014 09:11AM

You forgot about the Brooks concerts.

Edit: Beaten.

jimgoose · 24-07-2014 09:12AM

We didn't start the fire.

vitani · 24-07-2014 09:12AM

I don't know if it is, or if it's just that we're more aware of everything that's going on these days because of social media etc, but yes, it definitely feels like things are more f**ked up than usual at the moment.

Mr. CooL ICE · 24-07-2014 09:12AM

Seems grand. Can't remember the last time my village was raped and pillaged by a bunch of Danes

Riamfada · 24-07-2014 09:13AM

There was a period there in the early 40s where things were a bit out of sync.

Ash.J.Williams · 24-07-2014 09:14AM

in 1917 U-boats sank over 3000 ships.....imagine that happened now! Most of them would have been civilian/cargo

The Backwards Man · 24-07-2014 09:16AM

I'd imagine it's getting better every single day, despite ongoing crises. The world isn't getting worse, it's just getting smaller.

SEPT 23 1989 · 24-07-2014 09:16AM

All of those things happening on a single day would be considered a quiet one during the worst days of WW2

conorhal · 24-07-2014 09:18AM

Na, I'd imagine that 24-7 news cycles and endless #outrage! campaigns might make it feel so, but the world is as $h1tty as it's always been. Though I have to say, I'm a lot more pessimistic about it then I was in '89 when the Wall came down, Nelson Mandela walked free and (ugh) The Scorpions topped the charts with Winds of change. It felt like there was genuine hope in the air, and not just Obama style slogans about 'hope'.

Frankly I've lost the urge to change the world since then, some may call that cynicisism, but I think that the reality is that all the problems you list are for those nations to fix for themselves. Nations strive for independence on their own path, afterwards they typically then have a good civil war (we did) to see who gets to run then, then they slowly evolve at their own pace according to what the majority of the population are willing to change or not change, but most nations want to do better for their populations and their populations want better for themselves so change and progress is an inevitable if often rocky path and the patronizing paternalism of the west tutting and interfering is a joke. We should just stay out of it, and that includes funding and arming various sides of conflicts.

Qualitymark · 24-07-2014 09:19AM

Seagulls.

Maximus Alexander · 24-07-2014 09:19AM

As long as there have been people in the world, it's been pretty ****ed up. But it's still better than the alternative.

jimgoose · 24-07-2014 09:20AM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

All of those things happening on a single day would be considered a quiet one during the worst days of WW2

Contrary to the current popular belief the 1960s were pretty screwy too. Cuba, Yom Kippur, civil rights, Vietnam, etc.

wretcheddomain · 24-07-2014 09:21AM

Not since the summer of 1992. Awful heat.

cloud493 · 24-07-2014 09:21AM

As someone already pointed out, constant 24 hour updates of news means they have to either dig out new stuff, or keep repeating the same stuff over and over. See sky news.

blinding · 24-07-2014 09:22AM

eviltimeban wrote: »

Syria (ongoing).

Girls gang raped and killed in India, and kidnapped in Nigeria.

MH370 goes missing (presumed crashed).

Gaza conflict.

MH17 shot down.

Taipei plane crash yesterday.

I was kinda thinking the same.

But the posters here have made me re-evaluate.

The Garth Brooks thing is really serious though ! (Jeez, I am beginning to hate that guy even though I know almost nothing about him. I best take a chill pill)

Grand Moff Tarkin · 24-07-2014 09:25AM

Having made it through the 70's and 80's with the threat of a nuclear WWIII hanging over us like a sword on a string I can say that this is nothing.

Qualitymark · 24-07-2014 09:26AM

OP, look at the basis for conflict in each of the atrocity-laden hellholes you cite: enormous amounts of arms supplied by gleefully-hands-rubbing companies, conflict over ownership of land, eugenicist nonsense about who should be entitled to live in a particular spot, woo-woo religious mania…
And oil. I pray daily to my non-sectarian, non-religious God for some clever person to invent, quick-smart, a replacement for the internal combustion engine that's cheap and easily made by everyone and runs on something in huge universal supply like sun or seawater.

JustAddWater · 24-07-2014 09:27AM

Its gonna hit 27C in parts of Dublin today.... That's some crazy ass stuff right there

Warper · 24-07-2014 09:28AM

The Crusades all the way

fonecrusher1 · 24-07-2014 09:30AM

Tiz desperate ......

Calibos · 24-07-2014 09:37AM

By all global metrics including health, poverty, lifespan, wars, crime etc etc we are living in the safest time ever in the history of the world. A billion people have been lifted out of abject poverty in the last 20-30 years alone. Global 24hour mass media make it seem magnitudes worse than it used to be when in fact it's actually magnitudes better than it used to be.

It's like the saying, 'weather is not climate'. Weather is time and geographically localised. Climate is global trends. People confusing the two leads to people saying idiotic things like 'Jaysus, how about that Irish Snow in 2010! Just shows how that global warming lark is a load of sh!te.'

Yes there's sh!tty wars and atrocities going on in the world right now but there's actually less of both now than in any time in history. Even though there was a lot worse a lot more often You just didn't hear about them then.

Barely There · 24-07-2014 09:38AM

MagicIRL wrote: »

Isn't there some study that proves the world is getting progressively better as time goes on?

Yes, it's called 'History'.

No Pants · 24-07-2014 09:49AM

I take it you never heard of the Great War/World War and World War II. The Napoleonic Wars? Armenia?

There's a handy list here.

The events you mention? John Rambo has killed more on his own.

donegal__road · 24-07-2014 09:50AM

in 1927, the world population hit the 2 billion milestone... today the world population is 7.2 billion.

The more people there are, the more messed up things will get.

Interesting graph showing how the world's population has increased as technology advances.

OldNotWIse · 24-07-2014 09:50AM

Dont forget the plague outbreak.

gandalf · 24-07-2014 09:50AM

These kinds of issues always existed in some form or another. What has changed is the availability of coverage and information. As someone has already said the world today is more than likely a better place than it was 20 years ago, 50 years ago a hundred years ago for the majority of its inhabitants.

Here is a graph of the increase in life expectancy over the 100 years from 1900 to 2000. Africa is still lagging behind the World Average but it is catching up.

Is this the most f**ed up the world has been in years?

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