Is our world getting better or worse?

I'm just reading some news and it started me a thinking.... We, as human beings, are supposedly getting smarter... adapting... evolving... The reason why I say supposedly is because it seems like now, more than ever, do I hear about stories where people are so dumb that you don't understand how someone can be so dumb at this day in age.  Example: Why a school principal would think that it would be "ok" to publicly post the students who got an "F" on the internet?  I mean, I would think that any principal would know that roles and responsibilities of their job, as I do, as any person who has ever held a job knows.  And there is a large difference between doing something stupid by mistake, and doing something stupid while you have convinced yourself or blindly believe that the idea is a smart one.  And you see this everywhere!  However, this is not the only degeneration occurring.

More and more we find that not only is the number of perverts, crazies, wackos, and weirdos increasing, but they are seemingly getting more and more depraved... on top of that, some of the worst are people who hold positions of power...

It just seems that no matter where I look, I see the world getting worse and worse on the individual level... immorality, bad ethics, stupidity, depravity... and all the while, we take a few people's progress and spread it across millions, giving us the illusion of improving as a whole. In effect, a small group actually improves while the rest drag each other down, fighting for the "dribblings" of wealth from that small group, whether it be intellectual or financial, where it is in then "dribbled" down, rinse and repeat. The channels that facilitate these "dribbling"s are not efficient or do not possess  the best-for-everyone-overall mentality, causing the resource pool of wealth to grow smaller and smaller at each consecutive level to draw from.  Sigh.

I'll come back and talk sports in a bit...