I am increasingly worried about the state of the world each year. However, I was discussing this with a friend recently and we were talking about how much of i

I am increasingly worried about the state of the world each year. However, I was discussing this with a friend recently and we were talking about how much of it was simple the result of more reports about the trouble in the world. I realized something: if there was, say, ten reports of really bad, violent crime in Denmark (where I am from -- population: 5 million people) per year, that would be very little. But even so, if I heard about each of them, it would be practically something really bad happening every month which would lead me to feel that things were going down the drain. In other words, an unchanging constant violence rate would seem like a deterioration. And furthermore, if the type of violence was different every time, I would start to feel that all the different types of violence were on the rise. So maybe my fear is not completely justified. But I still don't feel completely convinced.