Hold On to the Center

Yeats said the center cannot hold. Lao Tzu said: hold on to it. In Chapter 5 of The Tao of Lloyd, 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. From the edge of empire and the center of se...