Not more crazy than past times. We just were lucky to have been living in a bubble the past 3 or 4 decades or so. Now that it bursts, we no longer find ourselves used to the madness that always seems to have been there, just outside that thin bubble that had protected and isolated us.
Personally, I think all this madness we complain about only means the human world switches back to standards of a historical "normality". Due to the pendulum being held and pushed upwards for the past 40 years or so on the one side, it now swings back and impacts on the other side with an equivalent momentum.
By that the fragility of modern civilizational "developments" will be shown. I don't think they have what it takes to digest that backswing. Rome was the superior civilization in its times, still less developed "barbaric" civilizations brought it down, as well as internal overaging and and petrification of internal structures. Those "inferior" rivals challenging Rome may not have been as sophisticated - but they were more sturdy and solid in a more archaic understanding. They were more adaptive, in the end. Evolutons knows no "higher" or "lower", more or less "valuable" status, only surival of those who adapt better than others to present circumstances.
As an example for what I mean, just imagine a solar storm would bring down the most vulnerable basis of the high-developed contemporary human civilization from one day to the other: electricity-based technology. We would be done, and those who have lived in primitive conditions in the past decades and being used to secure their survival without electricity, all of a sudden would be superior to us, and more adapted to the new rules of life.
Maybe it needs the destruction by untamed barbaric power not obeying the rules claimed by that what it destroys, to create opportunity for renewal and renovation, like bush fires help to get rid of old, dead forests and thick underwood, and creating the fertile ground for new plants to grow and ecosphere to form up, growing into the new, younger, stronger forest of the future with a much bigger spectrum of species living in it again, animals and plants alike. So many other natural disaster are as two-faced like this, too. Think of volcanoes.
The truth is, the civilizational rules we live by in the West, have come of age, and its teeth are falling out, the willingness and the ability to defend it, are waning. No doubt that the future is not ours, but somebody else's. And I am not even certain that it will be China. For China repeats too many of our own mistakes, me thinks.
Rome's in flames, and its gates are wide open.
No doubt - it must be a monday today.
