I disagree that we’re not in a unique time. Before the advent of technology (even beginning with the telegraph), we could live our entire lives without being aware what was going on elsewhere (be it a distant nation, or even in a neighboring village). Now we can learn what is going on anywhere (well, media-approved) at the touch of a button.
Satan’s fingerprints are all over the 20th century, arguably the most bloodthirsty and evil century in recorded history. The cultural decay and rejection of God has increased dramatically in my lifetime. The embrace of sin, of self, of darkness seems to know no limits. It has been elevated to being the new religion (Sodomite flags flying on churches, blasphemous evil). God may win out in the end, but the damage the forces of darkness can do, along with its countless adherents in powerful positions, in the interim is of unfathomable magnitude.
The evils of the 20th century were a matter of scale, which was a consequence of technology. Earlier times had quite as much malice, terror, bloodshed, insanity, cruelty and sin. Part of the scale effect was simply that more people were vulnerable because populations had greatly increased (technology), organization was easier (technology), weapons were more effective, etc on top of etc.
I am much more sanguine about modernity. We could still use the inquisition of course.