With all due respect, but when has this never been the case? History did not begin the day any of us were born.
People have sort of an egotistical desire to believe the times they live in are completely unique in every way.
The Jehovah's Witnesses, I understand, think that something significant happened in 1914. And whether their relgious teachings are true or not, that is a great insight. Think of the world of the early 1900s, and look at the world today. Consider what has happened in the last 100 years. Barbara Tuchman talked about a "Proud Tower," and how it fell. We seem to have raised a higher one, and like the first it may be laid low.