At first glance, the four words— Corona, Chaos, Cosmos, Crack —seem like the output of a damaged radio transmitter. They do not belong together. One is a virus, one is a state of being, one is the universe, and one is a flaw. Yet, if we have learned anything from the past few years, it is that the most profound truths often lie in the collision of unrelated nouns.

Leonard Cohen famously wrote, "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." The "corona chaos cosmos crack" is not a doomsday prophecy. It is a diagnosis.

: Feeling lost, disoriented, or overwhelmed by the "waters of the soul." Weller's View