We live in a harsh world. We live in a fast world.
I wouldn’t claim today’s world is faster or harsher or whatever-you-name than it was before, because usually such claims are, in my opinion, attributable to a shift of perception that comes with growing up, growing older and more experienced.
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. - Aristophanes’ Clouds (423 BC)
It is nevertheless ever-changing.
And so in November 2011 the legal regulations for prostitution in Vienna changed, doing so also arousing a lot of controversity[0].
