Human nature hasn't significantly changed in thousands of years. We go through cyclical periods of peace and war, building and destruction. Industrialization and automation has made life perhaps more complex, but obesity plagues the Western world from North to South.
The internet, and particular social media can concentrate our perception of doom and danger. Industrialization has certain increased our collective ability to wreak destruction, and accelerated the speed at which it can occur.
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