What people do, how they act, has to be in their minds first. Almost everyone spends hours a day at TV or movies, some from the time they are babies before they can filter the information with good reason. So we know what is the main information is in most minds. People's actions can only be the result of what they know.
By looking at where we have been in comparison with where we are, we can see the direction we are headed. TV and movies in 1960 was squeaky clean in comparison to TV and movies in 2013.
Houses had to be locked, then, too, but now security and locking is a main consideration. With this growing every year, our homes will need to be fortresses.
Seems to me there are also trends in religion. Masses of people are falling away more and more, but the remnant are becoming stronger and stronger. A new trend stems from the information scholars have found in the deep sea scrolls and is filtering down to us lowly worker bees so there is more understanding of the ancient books of the bible. So far, the established denominations are creating a solid front against any of that information, I wonder how that trend will go. It is something so old it was forgotten so now it seems new. When we travel towards God's ways it is a uniting in the Lord. From the time of Acts, there has been a pulling apart between Jews and gentiles. Gentiles say Judaism is as bad as atheism and Jews say Christians worship a false God. God says they will unite. I see that happening on both sides, but those on this front, both Jews and gentiles, are facing what Christ faced from the Pharisees.