When I was learning piano in college, I reached a point where I hit a major wall, and where I actually got worse over a period of time. My playing got clunkier and less expressive, and I was unable to communicate as well as I had before. Extremely upset, I went to the old emeritus piano wizard of the faculty for advice. He had been listening and told me that I had actually been improving very quickly, but my musical awareness had been increasing even faster. So relatively, my perceptions were telling me I was getting worse.

I tend to think that is behind the feelings of things being more violent. We're still adjusting to globalism and the greater feelings of interconnectedness.