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Feeling disoriented by the election, pandemic and everything else? It’s called ‘zozobra’ -- and Mexican philosophers have some advice.
The word “zozobra" is an ordinary Spanish term for “anxiety" but with connotations that call to mind the wobbling of a ship about to capsize. The term emerged as a key concept among Mexican intellectuals in the early 20th century to describe the sense of having no stable ground and feeling out of place in the world.