I've never looked at stats. While I'm from Nola my husband is local & we moved back @15 yrs ago. I may be wrong but <modsnip>. Whether its due to the thugs or not, that small-town feeling that I felt 30 yrs ago here seems to have faded a bit.
I think that's happening everywhere.
I'll probably sound like a withered old crone, but I think a societal shift is underway that can largely be attributed to technological advances.
People walk around with access to the world in the palm of their hand, often to the detriment of communication with their live family, friends and neighbors.
We've all seen people at dinner, each with their nose in their individual device. Social scientists have dubbed it Cellular Isolation. It's almost as if our fellow humans are no longer as crucial to our day to day lives as our Internet connection and electronic social network.
The Jury's Still Out on whether in hindsight this will have been a bad thing or a good thing. It could just be the next natural step in social evolution.
All of the above having been said, I am a devotee of New! Now! Next! I love new tools, I'm just not sure how or if this phase will bend the arc of social history.
I'll spare you my opinions on the perpetuation of increasingly violent video games that consume the lives of an entire generation of young men.
...and that concludes today's Puzzlingly Pointless Pontification
(accidental alliteration, Cazzie ;-)
Back to finding Mickey...
