[khaledh]

Violence, plagues, wars, disasters, etc. are as old as humans. The only difference is that news travels at the speed of light now, and it's a huge business that fights for your attention the same as everything else nowadays.

As many have already advised you in this thread, quit (or ration) the news and social media. At least be selective of what you choose to read/hear. You'll feel better.

[MikeTheRocker]

Came here to say this. The present is (on average) the best time to have ever been born in history.

[ohiovr]

The first will be the last and the last will be the first!

[bfung]

Agree.

To be clear, things are NOT devolving; we hear about injustice that wouldn’t used to make it to the news and we humans have new information processing challenges to handle.

In the radio / TV age, there were only a few channels and sources of information. What you heard was curated for attention, and the only choice was to hear or not hear. And everyone heard from the same, shared sources. It was relatively expensive to spin up your own radio/tv broadcast. It was a few-to-many relationship.

In the internet + personal devices age, there’s a flood of new information sources (some automated even) AND information consumers can now be segmented down to each individual. AND the barrier to creating these many-to-many information pipes is way lower than before. So now, the onus to sorting all this information out is up to individuals: on/off, which channels, and who else “heard” what you “heard”.

More information and disinformation available requires humans to figure out and process information better - def. a challenge, but it can help _accelerate_ improvements to society as well.