I got a haircut the other day, and the stylist was lamenting the downfall of civilization at the hands of such computer games as Grand Theft Auto. I gently said “there are other driving games”, but statistics didn’t seem to be her strong point.<\/p>\n
It’s a fashionable topic, but as David Brooks points out<\/a>, the trends are (at least south of the border) towards a better society:<\/p>\n Since the early 1990’s, domestic violence has dropped by more than half. Violent crime is down 55%. Drunk driving has declined 38%. Teenage pregnancy is down 28%. Divorce rates are declining. Child poverty is down. Elementary test scores are up.<\/p>\n Seems a cause for celebration and encouragement rather than gloom and doom.<\/p>\n (Hat tip: Instapundit<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I got a haircut the other day, and the stylist was lamenting the downfall of civilization at the hands of such computer games as Grand Theft Auto. I gently said “there are other driving games”, but statistics didn’t seem to be her strong point. It’s a fashionable topic, but as David Brooks points out, the … Continue reading “The Decline of Civilization”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}