"Nothing that is vast enters into the life of mortals without a curse." ---Sophocles Or as a Tom Robbins character put it: "You don't get a big top without a big bottom." I've coined a similar principle: When novelty intensifies, so do the outer edge of light and dark.
This is the nature of the time we live in. As Charles Dickens put it at the start of A Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."