Zach Lamb on Meaning & Crisis

existential dilemma, or the undercurrent of confusion and fear that accompanies living in a vast world where everything is impermanent.

Or do such Sisyphean philosophies—that “the road is life”—turn out to be bourgeois luxuries indulged by those safe enough to pretend this is all there is? Does the hunger and hope of the migrant show us something more fundamentally human? Maybe our craving for rest, refuge, arrival, home is a hunger that can’t be edited—the heart an obstinate palim