I just wanted to point out that 1) the word you are looking for is zeitgeist, means “spirit of the times” and 2) you would be hard pressed to find a period of history less violent than the one we live in today, esp. in the developed world.
Military conquest used to routinely involve depopulating areas. That means sticking sharp pointy things into infants, toddlers, very old people. And before that, you raped anything you could catch. You can’t pin this practice on any one group: the conquistadores did it, the Vikings did it, Native Americans did it, Tamer (not the poster) did it, various Czars, the Mongols, the Romans, every European medieval lord with his own horse did it.
In the middle passage, hundreds of human beings were stacked like cordword into the bowels of ships, and the bodies of the many who died en route were pulled out and thrown overboard only intermitingly. Babies were chucked over the sides of the boat still alive. This went on for centuries: it was not a passing madness.
In 19th C Britian the government could legally kidnap you off the street and send you to spend the next severl years in the hell of a navy ship.
One hundred and fifty years ago people–children and the elderly-- starved to death in the streets of London and New York, and many, many well off people watched them and thought it had nothing to do with them.
Early this century in the US, hundreds of men were hung by lynch mobs, most for no other reason than to serve as an object lesson to African-Americans in the south.
Up until this century in the US it was legally impossible to rape your wife. And up until pretty recently it was effectivly impossible for a man tpo rape a woman of signifigantly lower social status than himself.
If there’s a “spirit of the times”, then frankly, I’m proud to be a part of it.