If the overall comment is how you feel, cool.  You are always free to comment as you please.  Now....if you could provide some comparable & contrastable data to support your view, that would be great!

Our nation, however, has NOT become more violent.  It is just reported on more often and at a higher speed than in the past.  Of course you already know this, but whatever.  Have you seen Venezuela?  Or Spain?  Or, no lie, the streets of Haiti & now even PR?  I get what it is that you are trying to say; you think America sucks.  We should be taken down a few notches and we are not enlightened enough to be responsible enough to lead the world.  That's probably because you personally don't want to have to lead.  Just speculating, like you speculate.

You make it sound like a negative that our technology innovations are a negative.  Did you ever consider that our weapons also are used to protect and defend on a daily basis, but you just don't hear about it?  Hmmm.