has martial arts declined these times?

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as far as i've noticed, not much people have much interest in martial arts unlike before. and in dojos, i've noticed too in some of our practices that martial arts have focused only on self-defense and development techniques. some are even focused on how to hit other people. now, doesnt this approach a one way approach? i've never seen the somewhat spiritual approach of it nowadays. we've been engrossed with the MMA fever thats catching up with each martial artist and it seems everybody's mindset now is to beat everybody. we all train to become the best of our abilities, or probably the best among the rest. butdoesnt we have the wrong mindset? like beating everybody up to prove who's best? i've had conversations with some of my teammates and some practitioners and all they say is that i want to beat this and i want to beat that. everybody now has a very aggressive mind. im not saying its wrong, but somewhat we're just diverted what are your views on this?