There's always been bad stuff in the world but on average it's much better than it was. It's easy to be mislead by the media that profits from focusing on the bad. For a counter view see Pinker's stuff and this kind of thing:

war - https://medium.com/@angushervey/the-decline-of-war-8760f9a5b...

democracy - https://ourworldindata.org/democratisation/