> They are definitely incorrect. One pop culture way of looking at this is fairy tales. Not too long ago we used to tell children that if they went into the woods they could get eaten by people who lived there and lured children into their houses.

You're right that in the past there were more messed up events, which had high chance of being traumatic.

But you're forgetting is the role that Perception has in that equation - from the perspective of a human, a traumatic event isn't a comparison exercise to all possible events, or to past events on previous generations.

Your subjective experience is bound to your context.

In that sense, I wouldn't be shocked if there was more trauma now from the amount of stimulus were getting throughout our life, and the volume of dramatic changes we go through.

Not to mention that our life styles don't even allow us to process traumatic events properly.