Existential angst

God Hates Us

NOW I’m scared

Nina Paley, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

I worry that the unfathomable, impersonal universe of things-in-themselves will squish me like a gnat. But in relation to the universe, I’m less than a virus, right? You can’t squish a virus now, can you?

OK, crisis averted. I feel much better, as if COVID vanished like a bad dream. Wait, there are lots of ways we can kill viruses. Just…