I don't know if this growing social-wide mistrust is a result of the widening of social income gap, or a result of the accumulation of the various mass-media co

I don't know if this growing social-wide mistrust is a result of the widening of social income gap, or a result of the accumulation of the various mass-media coverage on the incidents of attack, abuse, betrayal or coning and conspiracy, from the international level and national governmental level all the way through to the level of individuals, which somewhat serve to amplify the real fear and hatred that we hoard in our life. I don't know if this is something that also is sensed by many other people; or, in the case it is, will this growing trend ever come to wane eventually, or evolve into something that no one could tame, and in the end to a point that fight or even war would become the only vent? -- the latter case happened so many times through the history, from the days of Peloponnesian War in the 400s BC (we know this to be the earliest one only because it was documented in the first history book found in western tradition, besides Herodotus's ), through the myriads of civil wars (including the one happened in America 150 years ago), to as recent as the cold war. The cause for many, if not all, of those bloody conflicts could ultimately be traced down to the mistrust among people.