Zozobra is a Spanish word for distress. The Mexican philosopher Emilio Uranga has used the term to describe a specific form of existential anxiety related to uncertainty and distress in the United States due to the confluence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the political events of the Trump presidency. More than that, it's a state of dissolution between values and beliefs, and the rules of society in which you live in. Corruption, violence, injustice, war, become the ingredients or the symptoms by which a world view is understood. Zozobra affects everyone.
These feelings and reactions persist today across the world, where the level of anxiety is growing, as western leaders are increasingly undermining democracy and the rule of law, with a global shift toward fascism, religious extremism, chaos and war.
