The correct answer should be enlightenment. During the enlightenment period it became the norm to abandon the the mystical and spiritual ideas and focus on science and education and improving the government. They were focused by works of political realism like Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and similar political realists.
Our population is changing by people dying from the pandemic. There is more violence now that people are sheltered. More suicidal deaths because of live changing situations