Society has changed in the past ten years

There are many different factors that I personally feel have changed alot of ways we as a society have changed in the past ten years. For example in 1999 there was a lot of economic growth and i believe the societies and sub-societies felt a lot more comfortable with life and foreign affairs, keeping there jobs, etc all that good stuff. Ten years later as a whole: I see there is a lot of more fear in people, we are gowing through a tough economic time. death rates and suicide rates have gone up. We are fighting a war on terror but we dont really know who we are fighting. people are a lot more conservative then im they use to be ten years ago. One major factor I really beleive that can install all these different thoughts is the media. The media is censored and tells us what the government wants us to hear. a lot of which i beleiv is propaganda. So society has changed in a major way as I beleive in ten years from now it will also change dramatically due to alot of factors that we might not be aware of yet.