What is going on in this world today?

Do you really think that its worse now than in the past? All the same things happened back then as well as now, if fact in the past there have been world wars, plagues which we couldn't control, people dying of simple things we can treat now and loads of other stuff, the fact is all we hear on the news is negative but there are loads of good things happening, start getting happy and don't believe all that crap about the Mayan calender in 2012, life is good.