It is just your feeling. Mankind has been embroiled in conflict since the first days it walked the earth. Thanks to the easy exchange of information in the present, however, the average person is simply more aware of what is going on.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell