Is the beast taking hold of human soul?

Whatever happening all around gives an impression that perhaps the whole mankind is running helter skelter towards its inevitable goal of damnation. Why has hate replaced love? why insolence, reason? why serpents, the green? Why's man become so bloodthirsty of his own fellow being? Some lunatics may go berserk for their personal ulterior motives but why those who don't have the remotest connections with the useless and meaningless killings of other innocent people who they might not have come across even in generations had there not been an imposed devil's war? I simply can't understand.