It feels like I'm living in the Dark Ages (in the darkest sense) but this time around with timely news casts, blogs, newspapers, twitters, communal online sharing, television, radio, and more to provide endless recaps and spotlights shining on the best but mostly the worst of human doings.
Is the world, are people worse now more than ever?  Does it just feel that way because it's communicated so much? 
What would have happened to western civilization if in the Middle Ages they'd gotten daily, hourly blow by blow accounts of the derranged, despotic, dreadful accounts of the grand and minutia of the world they lived in?