Crime and violence are the number one killers in America. But the crime rate is down by 5% in the last decade. And then it’s down to the Internet. I’m tired of having to think about my “crime” before I start my day. If you really want to know what it’s like to be a victim of a crime then this is a must-have piece of advice and a reminder to take it all in.
The rise of the Internet as a source of information is a major contributing factor. But the most important one is the decrease in violence. In a 2011 Pew study that examined the relationship between crime and media, the authors found that “the frequency of media depictions and coverage of crime has declined significantly. In 1990, media depictions and coverage of violence were extremely common, with about 1 in 4 articles (37%) mentioning crimes and about 1 in 5 articles (24%) mentioning killings.
That number fell to about 1 in 4 articles in 2010, and 1 in 5 articles in 2011. The Pew report also shows a dramatic drop in the number of murders, with a rate of 0.5 per 100,000 in the 1990’s, now it’s 0.1 per 100,000, far lower than it was in the 1970’s.
In a recent interview, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Crime Victimization (NAVC) says, “People are still being killed, and even though it’s no longer a crime, they’re being killed in the first instance.
I’m not sure, but I’d guess that the number of killings over the last year isn’t going to go down any time soon. As of the end of 2011, there were 2,848 murders in the U.S., and 1,527 murders in the U.S. as of February 2012. The national murder rate was about the same as it was when I was 10 years old.
I think the big problem with our nation’s culture of death is that it’s so quick. It’s as if we’re obsessed with quick death and nothing else. The result is that we’re killing people in such a rush that they’re not even aware of it. I mean, why are we so obsessed with instant gratification and instant gratification of something? Life is too precious to rush over something that isn’t even a genuine problem yet.
Some people are so obsessed with instant gratification that they don’t even realize what they’re doing. I mean, I’m guilty of this. I think I’m obsessed with instant gratification because I feel that it is just so much easier than thinking ahead and trying to figure out the consequences of what I’m about to do. I think this is also a big reason why I don’t always do things the right way.
I think most people have a pretty high tolerance for instant gratification. We all have a need to be able to experience immediate pleasure quickly; we have a need to feel that we are getting pleasure on a moment by moment basis. But, this need doesn’t always mean that it is the most pleasurable thing in the world. In fact, many people feel that immediate gratification is a horrible way to live. But, in my opinion, if something is too immediate, it becomes a problem.
The problem is that when you have an immediate need, you are immediately going to go after it. So, instead of just doing something that helps you achieve your immediate gratification, you are going to go after things that arent going to help you achieve your immediate gratification. The more immediate gratification you have, the more likely you are to go after something that doesnt help you achieve your immediate gratification.
To me, crime is about time. Not about money. Not about revenge. Not about power or status. It’s about time itself. Time is the one thing that is so indestructible and hard to change. It’s a single, indestructible thing that you can’t change. So, you need to figure out how to change it. You need to do something to make time go faster.
