Is society getting better or worse?

A viking to another took court. Clearly, they had an industry for it. 

And as the other poster pointed out, the church most definitely built a culture of grievance around what they felt the rules should be. Many of which went beyond what you could or could not do or say.

Heck, in feudal Japan, a samurai could lop off a citizen's head for failing to greet him properly. That's far worse than whatever issues people have with PC.

So now is not a bad time. And certainly isn't worse than the past. 

I don't agree that's happening. After all, people used to watch the morning news and be offended. And before that, they'd read the paper and be offended. Now they get it on their phones. They're no different than my generation or my father's. The medium is different, but humanity isn't.

What you're describing is what every past generation has described about the younger generation. It's always the same. The older generation never likes what the younger generation is doing or becoming. These younger people will be complaining about their children just as much as we do about them. It's a never ending cycle.

I think you hit the nail on the head. Things are changing faster than we can keep up. But that does not entail a worsening society.

I in fact can tell you that because that's the exact same thing people said ten years ago. People have been complaining about being PC for decades. It just wasn't labeled that.

However, if by PC culture, you mean people are less tolerant of hearing hateful things spouted off in public, then yes, that has in fact grown. And I'm happy for that. That's a sign society is getting better. There is no real issue with identity politics. If someone wants to correct me on what I can or cannot call them, wonderful. That's something that has always been the polite thing to do. "Don't call me Dick, call me Rich. Don't call me he, call me she." Absolutely, I will. I will happily be PC.



Actually, that's exactly what it is. This outrage culture has always existed. We just have a faster, better medium for getting our outrage out: the internet. Saying it's growing concern is father complaining about my taste in music.

I voted "worse."

The good stuff--and there's plenty of good stuff, is like always. It doesn't seem to have really gotten better.

Some of the bad stuff is similar to how it's always been, too.

But there are a couple currents that are far worse than they were in my opinion. Namely:

(1) SJWish bitching and moaning, often about ridiculous, petty shit, and wanting to control what other people can do, say, etc.; it wouldn't matter if they weren't so vocal and influential, but they are.

(2) Terrorism and mass violence in general.

With respect to my lifetime, at least, the folks on what we'd now call the PC or SJW side were never near as influential as they are now.  They never had near the power that they do now.  They used to be written off more or less as weirdly conservative loons.  There wasn't an impression that they were the mainstream.  That's what's worse about it.

Example?  Almost every thread on this board.  The whole "MeToo" nonsense, the whole calling everything racist, and on and on.

Re the second point, we haven't just invented bombs and guns.

Yes. This new internet culture of making big deals about these stupid trivial things is pathetic and really annoys me. These idiots are wasting their lives. None of that crap will matter in the end.