It is remarkably easy to expose yourself to truly horrifying things on the Internet. Stories, images, and videos of deaths of all kinds, from videos of terrorists cutting off people's heads to people live streaming their suicides to Reddit stories about motorcyclists having limbs ripped off in traffic accidents. News sites, forums, and social feeds are a parade of horrors. You cannot get away from the Internet, even if you want to, because your job constantly pings you on email/chat/whatever.

It feels like the "learned helplessness" experiments where researchers randomly shocked animals, who could not stop or do anything about the shocks.

I wonder if we are all traumatized by what we have seen over the years on Reddit, Twitter, etc.

There is an incredible recent song "Oh No" by Wet Leg that captures some of this. Here are the lyrics (sorry about the formatting):

I went home All alone Checked my phone Oh no Oh my God Life is hard Credit card Oh no You're so woke Diet Coke I feel gross Oh no I went home All alone I checked my phone And now I'm inside it

On my phone All alone In the zone Oh no Hours pass Pizza rat I like that Oh no 3 AM I feel Zen Fucking Zen Oh no Suck the life From my eyes It feels nice I'm scrolling, I'm scrolling, ah

If you're going to the party I heard there's gonna be some arty People talking 'bout themselves Or whatever it is that you always talk about, ah

I went home All alone I checked my phone Oh no I went home All alone I checked my phone And now I'm inside it