Is everything wrong with practically everything these days?
You can hardly turn over a blog page, or flip through a list of scrolling tweets, or listen to some startling statistic, without being given the impression that this is the case.
The economy stinks, the politicians are up to their usual tricks, the celebrities are vain, the media are corrupt — in short, we are in terminal decline. Chicken Littles are everywhere declaring that the sky is about to fall on our heads.
