IMO...as our society progresses, a couple things are happening...
there are more potholes in the road of life, AKA places where you can screw your life up & ruin your dreams. drug abuse. payday loans. student loans. underwater mortgages. marrying the wrong person & having kids with them. sports & online gambling. proliferation of guns. as society has more pleasures & has freedom, more people are self destructing by making poor decisions they cant recover from.
then there is a sort of social expectation, that you go to college, get married, have a house a job & 2.2 kids by the time your 30, or else your a loser. magazines post pictures of the most beautiful people from around the world. in 1870 the local magazine had the local hag, who back then had high expectations for personal appearance? you see in pics, the way people used to dress in the past. ugly.
its just harder & harder, as people create higher & higher standards for themselves to accomplish. there was some kid in santa barbara a while back, shot up a bunch of people because he was not rich or pretty enough in his mind. He was attractive & drove a beemer, but wasnt good enough, went psycho. More & more i feel school shooters are lashing out at these trends, these expectations of beauty wealth & perfection reflected by the media.
just IMO.
