What is this world coming to?

Staff Editorial

What is this world coming to?’” is a phrase commonly tossed around in discussion of out-of-the-ordinary events or situations where people are unsure of how to respond to unusual circumstances.

But if you take a moment to sit and think about things we see, read about and hear of on a regular basis, it really does beg the question : “what is our world coming to?”

One of the most recent news stories to perplex us is the story of the pregnant man. A transgender male decided to quit taking his testosterone treatments in order to become pregnant. He is now carrying he and his wife’s child through the process of artificial insemination using sperm purchased from a bank.

We have also seen and heard the stories of unprecedented violence such as the 16-year-old cheerleader whose animalistic beating was recorded by her fellow cheerleaders for airing on YouTube.

And don’t forget about the third graders who brought knives and duct tape to school in order to carry out a plot against their teacher for disciplining one of their fellow classmates.

Then we have the completely random news such as elephants in Thailand painting self portraits, every celebrity under the sun entering rehab and hundreds of children taken into custody because of their parent’s involvement in polygamy.

All of this certainly does make us wonder what we as a society are coming to and where we are going to continue to go as a society. But is the world getting crazier or do we just have more access that allows us to see into crazy things that have always been going on.

With the increasing popularity of internet sites such as Facebook and YouTube, we will continue to see things that were once left to the privacy of the people and parties involved. As society becomes more accustomed to seeing these out of the ordinary stories, they will continue to become even more prevalent in our daily lives.