This was TheForge's thing. I disagree. Not to minimize this stabbing, but there have been stabbings for nearly all history. And bombings as long as their have been bombs.

And historically, terms like "community" and "it takes a village" applied only to narrowly defined communities. E.g. people who look like you and follow the same religion. Only very recently (e.g. hundred or so years) has it expanded much beyond that. Because there are frictions in that expansions, I don't think we need to call in the plague.

Also, we like to think we live in special, different times. I don't think we're special. We're dealing with the same old shit humans have always had to deal with.

Most of the U.S. lives in safer conditions than at any time in U.S. history by any measurable metric. We're just so used to safety we've become kind of paranoid drama queens.