Idk, the only thing that changed over the last few hundred years is the scale in which things happen. Covid was a world wide thing while the black plaque was "only" Europe.

Wars a few hundred years back were also a lot more localized I think, now they are a pretty global thing. Same with news, back in the day Idk if we would know about wars not in our percoevable range.

And looking back, things always kind if worked out. Personally I am tired that the human species does not seem to evolve beyond our tiny fragile ego and that annoys the heck out of me