So very true. I find that how well I keep this in perspective is directly related to how depressed I am at any given moment, but...

Dude. Read a bit of history, and then tell me that the world is a better/worse place now than it was 50, or 500, or 5000 years ago. People are people, and sometimes we are awesome, and sometimes we suck gravel through a bendy straw, and most of the time we're all somewhere in between.