The author cites an email from last week in which a person describes high tension, little control over chaos, anger, sadness and exhaustion. He suspects these feelings are pervasive. A broken world order, with the disintegration of the systems that stabilized societies, created a wave of uncertainty. People are fearful, restless, fearful, anxious, tense and agitated. The brutal war of attrition in Ukraine and the horrific humanitarian disaster in Sudan add to the comprehensibility of these feelings. The article is a commentary entitled Offline: Meditations on Melancholy.