Review of "A Desensitized Society: Heartless Humans"

In "A Desensitized Society: Heartless Humans" the question is posed that because of today's popular media, we as a culture, are becoming more and more tolerable to mutations and death. Most people would tend to agree with this due to today's popular culture in which there has been a recent increase in violence over the past years in both the media and society itself. However, I would greatly disagree with this statement. In fact I would say it is the opposite. Throughout human history there has been death; the first man died, as did the second, and the first million, and the first billion, etc... And these billions of people have died in every way conceivable. So of course death isn't seen as that big of a deal, especially if you don't know the person. It is what it is, and it has always been that way. While violence has recently increased with the war and such, it only seems like this because we had the lull of the cold war (a war of fear, not death). WWII, the Napoleonic Wars, the Crusades, etc... were far more violent. In the long run of human history, we have become increasingly sensitized to death and violence.