And I have to say, I know shit is bad right now and could very much get worse, but it’s not like this is the first round of horribleness in history. When I think about the period between the start of WW1 and the end of WW2, there was some serious, scary shit going on, also globally linked, also violent, etc. It’s the era of the nadir of race relations in America (highpoint of lynching epidemic), the strongest point in history for the KKK, the rise of fascism, not just in Germany, Italy, and essentially Japan, but in many places, fascists played a role, Stalinism was the dominant form of communism in the world (and he was largely unchallenged as the leader of the movement), then the depression hits hard (earlier in some places than in others), let’s not forget the Spanish civil war, then eventually political solutions are taken off the table for the second WW, which was an incredibly brutal war, especially on civilians (holocaust, Dresden/Tokyo firebombing, rape of Nanking, the violent rapes of German women in the eastern front as the Red Army moves into germany - even battles were rather brutal, Battle of the Bulge), end of the war comes with not 1, but 2 atomic bombs. Even the end of ww2 isn’t completely end it all, as you have the division of Israel and Palestine (after a terror campaign by ultra-radical zionists), the continued aftermath of the atomic bombs, and the start of the CW, etc.
Even the late 60s and early 70s had terrible issues that are worth thinking about in comparison today - there were far more domestic terrorist then (Weathermen and other radical groups - though they probably had less collective murders on their hands than the modern wave of Daesh inspired assholes), still major protests over the war which ended violently sometimes, a wave of skyjackings (many ending peacefully in Cuba, but not all), Vietnam was still happening, problems in the mid-East, like the 67 war and the reprisals during the Munich Olympics, etc. Then you got push back against civil rights (like the anti-bussing protests), stagflation, gas crisis, watergate…
I know it often doesn’t make much sense to compare eras, but I sort of feel like as bad as things are right now, we’re not near the bottom. I still would say the period between 1914 and 1945 or so might have been some of the worst years for humanity. Even then, there were incredibly brights spots - jazz, anti-racist and anti-colonial resistance movements, art and culture in general as a global phenomena… even the 70s had the racially and sexually inclusive disco movements and punk rock. So, even then, there was a silver lining.