So you know how some articles/books about real life can make you want to curl up in the fetal position and cry for about a week because everything seems completely hopeless? I mean - the shit is so fucked up that your brain zones out because it senses that it needs to protect your psyche? By way of example - there is a delightful little book called The Theory and Practice of Hell which is a compilation of US Army reports of tesimony from survivors of Buchenwald after it was liberated, which did that for me when I read it in high school.
Well - check this article out if you want a REAL downer
It's like - the more you know...the more you don't want to know. Ignorance is bliss sometimes.