I agree with Richie, that it has always been here, it’s just that now there are so many ways in which to record and distribute.
Many years ago, when I was first exposed up close and personal to violence and its end result, life and death whether intentional or accidental. I had an extremely difficult time dealing with the blood and guts and the faces of death in my head. I would continue to see it for days and weeks after the fact and question why all the time. It didn’t take long before I was seeing a shrink and getting a healthy dose of happy pills. I don’t recall what brought me out of it to where I could continue seeing it and not need the happy pills any longer. Is it desensitization or simply dealing with reality? I don’t know, but sometimes I sure would like to go back to not seeing and yet sometimes I seek it. So what’s up with that?