Milena Rangelov

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

We—at least if we are among the lucky ones—have every gadget and recipe and website and storefront and exotic holiday in the world available to us, but we are lacking two things that we seem to need, but grasp at nonetheless: meaning, and roots.

From Against the Machine

We died in 2020 and this is hell” is a popular meme expression, used to reply to posts about things that are too ridiculous or too awful to process, a reflection that something changed in the fabric of society during the Big Awful Year™ of 2020, that living in the time after has been torture. “first in my generation to hear this combination of