I agree. Things have always happened in the world, now we hear about all of them with the internet. We just have bigger sticks now.I believe in cycles, but I also know things are much worse than they used to be. Today's world is not the one most of us grew up in. Things happened, but not with this frequency and this intensity.
I get tense and depressed if I watch too much news, which I usually do. I have to distance myself from news for a while to regroup.