World was always the same, just the media & governments could hide it easily. Now that shit got even more fucked, even governments don't know what to do.
Take for example the Jihadists and Talibans in general. US knew that they couldn't win them, 'cause these shits are like cockroaches, you kill 10, then 100 spawn.
This could turn like the Pacific War. US faced the same problems, so they nuked the shit out of Japanese.. They did well though? Well not really. But if they do it now to the Middle East, they will kill thousands of families that are trapped there.
So here we have the dilemma that they face: 1) Kill them all and by the sacrifice of the innocent world will have less problems with terrorism. 2) Don't kill them and keep loosing soldiers and innocent citizens of the major cities.
So why people loose their humanity? Because most times they are done with all that shit that currently are happening. They don't know who to trust because they fear of getting bombed while their eating for example.
I talked about the "religion part" of your question. The whole thing is super complicated and for sure one day we may wake up in a wasteland, but who really knows :thinking: