Earth's a soul factory. The Universe runs on negative & positive polarity, good vs evil. There are no bad experiences, only those your soul needs to progress.
There's much suffering due to lack of knowledge and seeking things outside yourself, it's all inside. David Icke said love is not something you're in, it's something you ARE. A eternal piece of source consciousness having a human experience.
In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.