The world has not changed

I see so many bad things going on the world which I knew nothing about, or had very limited knowledge of, until the media revolution of the last few decades. But some people in the world were aware and one of those was Walt Whitman, the 19th century poet.
While I had heard of him I only really 'discovered' him for myself recently. His name is a familiar one to almost all Americans - but perhaps  you should read some of his words and look out, as he did.

Then you will see the world hasn't changed - in fact - it has got worse, far worse. That's the human race for you!

I Sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman (1819-92)

I sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;

I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;

I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;

I see the wife misused by her husband--I see the treacherous seducer of young women;

I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid--I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny--I see martyrs and prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea--I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these--All the meanness and agony without end, I - sitting, look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.