GlobalMan:
You make a very fair point. After all, if there's anything I learned in my statistics class in college, it's this:
"Correlation does not necessitate Causation.
And I can't speak for OP, but I don't think he is necessarily saying that we're WORSE off, only merely that we aren't BETTER off.
Everything has a cost. EVERYTHING. There are a lot of things that have improved in the past decade, or century, but a lot has also gotten worse.
Is technology the cause of this? Perhaps, perhaps not. I have no doubt it is a contributing factor, but we shouldn't pretend as though culture exists in a vacuum.
You make a very fair point. After all, if there's anything I learned in my statistics class in college, it's this:
"Correlation does not necessitate Causation.
And I can't speak for OP, but I don't think he is necessarily saying that we're WORSE off, only merely that we aren't BETTER off.
Everything has a cost. EVERYTHING. There are a lot of things that have improved in the past decade, or century, but a lot has also gotten worse.
Is technology the cause of this? Perhaps, perhaps not. I have no doubt it is a contributing factor, but we shouldn't pretend as though culture exists in a vacuum.