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For some perspective on 2008 and modern times in general:
To the Modern-day Left and Right:
Get over yourselves. This is not, and never will be, the most DANJERUS TIME IN HISTOREE!!!!1500 years ago, the Plague of Justinian killed half of Europe's population, paving the way for an extraordinary expansion of Islam. Guess what? More dangerous than today.
1500 years ago, nomadic peoples collapsed two of the greatest political units of the time. Guess what? More dangerous than today.
500ish years ago, the Black Death swept through Eurasia. 30% of Europe died, and that only 500 or so years after the Plague of Justinian. Guess what, class? You got it! More dangerous than today!
400ish years ago, death sliced up 90% of the population of the Americas. More dangerous then to live in this part of the world than today.
700ish years ago, a man named Timur swept through Central Asia and destroyed, (and by that I mean destruction, there was nothing left of them) Central Asian Christian communities far more thoroughly than Hitler's war did to the Jews. Twas not a good time to be a Christian. More dangerous than today.
800 years ago, a Mongolian nomad united the tribes. Within 10 years of his death, Eurasia was unified under ironclad regimes. You know the drill, more dangerous than today.
1600 years ago, a mass migration of Germans disrupted virtually all civilization in Western Eurasia, fleeing the Huns. More dangerous than today, and it took 1400 years for parts of that old civilization to recover the population they had prior to it.
600 years ago, another Volkerwanderung sliced through one of the largest cities of America, turning the Toltecs into a vanished people. More dangerous than today.
Near 500ish years ago, a tyrannical man named Pakachuti conquered vast swathes of America, again more dangerous to be an American than today.
Near 2300 years ago a tyrannical man named Alexander conquered a truly civilized empire. Far more dangerous, particularly after he died, than to be living today.
You see, dangerous times today may and do exist, but compared to the utter catastrophes of the past...
today is nothing.