It seems like today the world is so tragic, but hasn't it always been?

Today, we are faced with terrorism bombings, mass shootings, and police brutality.

But throughout history we have always had violence.

We had the Vietnam war, the 1960s protests, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the World Wars, gangsters and the mafia, the KKK, cowboys and outlaws, the guillotine, witch trials, medieval torture...the list goes on and on.

It seems like no matter where we are in history there is violence, but it also seems like our generation makes it seem more horrific than before. People are in hysterics over what is happening in the world today, but to me it seems like it is all relevant. I don't think we are at the worst of it, getting there, but I am not at the point of hysterics over it. I certainly wouldn't want to be a Jew in WWII, I wouldn't want to be a Frenchman in the guillotine days, I wouldn't want to be a woman during the Salem witch trials.

Should we worried about the world today? Yes, the world is violent...but it always has been. Is it going to get worse? No doubt...But is it really something to get hysterical over? I would much rather come together as a global community to end the violence than to hide under a rock and hope and pray it all goes away.

Do you think violence is relevant? Should we be worried or hysterical? Are we really worse off in the technology age than in the Industrial days? Do we really have it bad? How bad is it?