"The thing about trauma is that, as odd as it may sound, it’s a terribly mundane thing. Our suburbs are full of it. An experience of trauma doesn’t necessarily require a spectacular air disaster, a collapsing mineshaft or a cataclysmic firestorm. Mostly, all that’s needed is a limited capacity to suffer and an unbreakable connection to a system of economics that cares neither whether you live or die or who you are, as long as whatever you are doing means you are socially and morally compliant and continually buy stuff."
— Strong words by Steven Wright in The Provedence of Things for Overland Literary Journal. I personally don’t go as far as he does with the economic reading of things, but his words about trauma being mundane struck a chord.
