“Mankind has been violent for tens of thousands of years and there’s been no increase in the rate of that, either.”
Thats easy to say. Can you post a trend chart?
What’s easy to say is “gosh, the world is going to heck, look at all this violence” which is a common cliche. And it’s never backed up by facts, merely perceptions. It’s the responsibility of those claiming that to back that up with analysis, not just an impression from CNN.
Here’s one example of a worldwide downward trend in armed conflict for quite some time. Certainly doesn’t look like the end times to me.
http://www.sipri.org/contents/conflict/MAC_patterns.html
I’d love to see such trend charts, too.