Yeats said the center cannot hold. Lao Tzu said: hold on to it.

Lloyd Dobler tries to find the still point under the noise: doomscrolling, spiritual overtalking, Gen X refusal, American collapse, and the small radical pause between inhale and exhale.

A sorta-kinda guided meditation on what it means to hold the center without clutching it, weaponizing it, or turning it into one more thing to yell about online.