It is hard to say if society now faces more or greater problems than in years past. It seems so but then every generation thinks that they have a more difficult time than their predecessors. It is more likely that our problems have always remained the same and what is different now is that the ills that we are facing are not being handled as well as they once were. If there is any one overriding reason why this is so, it is the obsession with the current prime directive of political correctness.
