Yeah.
It’s amazing that anybody, no matter how stupid, ignorant, or uneducated he is, could mistake what we have today as worse, much worse, than the past. We are simply better at slaughter than they were, but they were no less willing to engage in it, and would do it for reasons we no longer would.
And also, we are much better at the good stuff, too.
May I recommend a most excellent book?
http://www.amazon.com/War-Before-Civilization-Peaceful-Savage/dp/0195119126
Demonstrates conclusively that most primitive societies were orders of magnitude more violent than even the most violent society of today. Causes liberal heads to explode.